14 Facts About Matt Carthy

Matt Carthy's mother is from County Monaghan and his father from County Roscommon.

The family moved to County Roscommon when Carthy was aged two, where he lived until he was 10.

Matt Carthy has described the experience of living on the Irish border during the conflict as playing a formative role in shaping his republican political views, and cites hunger strikers Bobby Sands and Kieran Doherty as major influences.

Matt Carthy studied marketing for a year at the Dublin Institute of Technology, where he formed a Sinn Fein college cumann in 1996.

Matt Carthy was a founding member of Ogra Shinn Fein the following year.

Matt Carthy worked as a full-time youth organiser for Ogra in Dublin in Sinn Fein's party headquarters, and as a press officer for Sinn Fein.

Matt Carthy was elected as the first Sinn Fein member of Carrickmacross Town Council in County Monaghan in 1999, becoming the youngest elected representative in the country at the time.

In June 2006, Matt Carthy was elected as the first Sinn Fein Mayor of Carrickmacross Town Council.

Matt Carthy was a member of Monaghan County Council from 2004 to 2014, and was elected mayor of Monaghan County Council in 2008.

Matt Carthy is a substitute member of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee and Transport and Tourism Committee.

Matt Carthy was a full member of the Panama Papers Committee of Inquiry for its duration from 2016 to 2017.

Matt Carthy has been party whip in the European Parliament since 2014 and has been a member of the Ard Chomhairle at regular intervals since 1998.

Matt Carthy was the Sinn Fein Director of Elections for the 2016 general election.

At the 2024 general election, Matt Carthy was re-elected to the Dail.