Ivana Bacik

Ivana Bacik is the Leader of the Labour Party and TD for Dublin Bay South. She was first elected as a Senator on the Dublin University panel in 2007, and was re-elected at each subsequent Seanad election before being elected to the Dáil in July 2021 and November 2024. A lifelong feminist, Ivana has a long track record of campaigning on feminist and human rights issues. For many years, Ivana was the Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College Dublin, and has published extensively on criminal law, criminology, human rights, constitutional law and related matters. Under her leadership, the Labour Party increased its representation in the European Parliament and in Ireland’s National Parliament (the Oireachtas) in the most recent elections.

Leader of Labour Ireland