Lisa McDonald

Infobox Politician
name =Lisa McDonald
nationality =

---

office =Senator
term_start =3 August 2007
term_end =
vicepresident =
predecessor =
successor =
birth_date = 1974
birth_place =County Wexford
Ireland
death_date =
death_place =
constituency =Taoiseach's Nominee
party =Fianna Fáil
spouse =
religion =
order2 =
term_start2 =
term_end2 =
president =
predecessor2 =
successor2 =|

Lisa McDonald (born 1974) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician from County Wexford. She was appointed to Seanad Éireann as a Taoiseach's Nominee on 3 August 2007. She was particularly close to then Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern.

Prior to her appointment she was a county councillor on Wexford County Council from 2004; a position she has to resign from as a senator. She was previously an unsuccessful candidate in the 2007 general election for Wexford, having been selected following a controversial procedure that ensured she automatically got a place on the party's election ticket. Her County Council seat was taken by Fergie Kehoe, although she opposed his nomination.

McDonald is married, with a young child, and studied law at University College Dublin before moving back to Wexford, where she worked as a solicitor in her own firm. While in college she was auditor of the Kevin Barry Cumann. She served on the Fianna Fáil National Executive from 1995–1998.

External links

* [http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=5297 Lisa McDonald's electoral history]