Malachy Steenson

Malachy Steenson (born 1962 or 1963) is an Irish politician, solicitor, and Dublin City Councillor for the North Inner City, elected in 2024 as an independent with support from National Party candidates. He runs a general law practice specializing in family law.

Steenson’s political journey is marked by a shift from left-wing Irish republicanism to conservative nationalism. In the 1990s and 2000s, he was involved with groups like Republican Sinn Féin, the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, and the Irish Republican Socialist Party, and was linked to the family of murdered Real IRA leader Alan Ryan. He ran as a Workers’ Party candidate in the 2009 Dublin Central by-election and 2011 general election but was expelled before 2012 for his hardline pro-life stance on abortion, notably campaigning against the 1992 abortion referendum with graphic posters from Youth Defence.

By the 2020s, Steenson became a prominent figure in Dublin’s anti-immigration protests, organizing rallies and speaking at the Irish Freedom Party’s 2022 conference, where he criticized the Gardaí’s support for Gay Pride and praised Donald Trump’s role in overturning Roe v. Wade. In a 2021 interview with The Burkean, he expressed concerns about “population replacement,” claiming many “new Irish” lack loyalty to the nation. He ran in the 2024 European elections for Dublin, receiving 7,128 votes (1.9%), and in the 2024 Irish general election for Dublin Central as an independent affiliated with the conservative National Alliance, but was not elected.

During his 2024 campaign, a man was arrested after allegedly threatening to kill Steenson at his office, which Steenson described as an “assassination attempt.”