Senator Lorraine Higgins - Biography
Constituency:
Galway East
Euro Electoral Region:
Ireland North West
Electoral Status:
Lorraine is currently a sitting Senator
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Tel:
Seanad: 01 6183186
Constituency Office: 090 964 2100
Email:
lorraine.higgins@oir.ie
Political Career:
- Selected to contest 2011 General Election, secured 3577 first preferences and finishing up with a total vote of 4652.
- Nominated to the Seanad, May 2011
Occupation:
- Barrister-at-Law and practices on the Western Circuit taking in the counties of Galway and Mayo
- Former Contract Law Lecturer with Griffith College Dublin
Memberships:
- Junior Chamber Ireland, Galway
- Galway Golf Club
- Cregmore Golf Club
Other Interests:
- A keen golfer playing off 11 she has represented Athenry Golf Club in the May Fitzgibbon All-Ireland Foursomes Final in 1996 and the Mixed Foursomes Connaught Final in 1998. She has also represented Galway Golf Club in Senior Cup and in Senior Ladies Foursomes (reaching the All-Ireland Semi-Final in 2008 and the Connaught Final in 2010)
Birth Details:
- 3rd of August 1979
Education:
- Dominican College, Taylor’s Hill
- National University of Ireland, Galway
- The Honourable Society of King’s Inns
