Profile of Current Lord Mayor

Councillor Dan Boyle, Ardmhéara Chorcaí

Lord Mayor's biography

Dan Boyle was born in Chicago, Illinois, to emigrant Irish parents. He has lived in his mother's native city of Cork since he was eight years of age, in the Turners Cross area of the city.

He was educated at local schools; Scoil Chríost Rí and Coláiste Chríost Rí, and at the Cork Regional Technical College (now MTU), where he studied Business Studies and Child Care. He received an MBS in Government from University College Cork in 2015.

In 1991, he won election to Cork City Council, the first Green Party candidate to do so. At the 2002 general election, he was elected to Dáil Éireann for the Cork South Central Constituency. He then resigned his seat on Cork City Council.

He was nominated by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to Seanad Éireann as a Senator in August 2007.  He was appointed as Deputy Leader of the Seanad. He was national Chair of the Green Party/Comhaontas Glas from 2007/2011. In 2019 he was elected once again to Cork City Council.

His voluntary commitments include environmental, arts and heritage and social justice organisations. He is currently a board member of the Irish Council for Social Housing.

He has one daughter, Saoirse, a mother to his three grandchildren Liamhain, Fiadh and Jack.

In 2011, he released a music album titled Third Adolescence.

 He has authored three books on political history - A Journey to Change (2006); Without Power of Glory (2012) and Making Up the Numbers (2017).