Mark Stanton
Mark Stanton was born and raised in Midleton, East Cork, attending Midleton CBS, for both primary and secondary education. His father David Stanton has served as a Fine Gael TD since 1997.
Following school, during his time at UCC, he had the honour of serving as President of the Students’ Union in 2014, where he represented 20,000 students on a range of issues.
For the past eight years, he has worked in the recruitment sector in Ireland and the UK, specialising in recruiting Project Management professionals across various industries.
His passion for sports is lifelong; he played senior rugby for Midleton and remains an avid sports fan.
Mark would like to maximise the vast offshore and wind potential in Cork Harbour, and if elected to the Dáil, says this will be one of his priorities. In tandem with this, he wants to bring about improvements to the digital transformation of public services.
He wants to see issues around derelict and vacant housing addressed, as well as transport infrastructure challenges, including N25 congestion and the Youghal train and bus transfers.
In his own constituency, Mark will work to progress the flood relief programme, so that local businesses are supported.