Matt Carthy
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19 July 1977
Matt Carthy | |
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.jpg) Carthy in 2025 | |
| Teachta Dála | |
| Assumed office February 2020 | |
| Constituency | Cavan–Monaghan |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 1 July 2014 – 9 February 2020 | |
| Constituency | Midlands–North-West |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Matthew Carthy 19 July 1977 Birmingham, England |
| Party | Sinn Féin |
| Spouse |
Lynn Carthy (m. 2009) |
| Children | 5 |
| Education | Inver College, Carrickmacross |
| Alma mater | Dublin Institute of Technology |
| Website | mattcarthy |
Matthew Carthy (born 19 July 1977)[1] is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a TD for the Cavan–Monaghan constituency since the 2020 general election.[2] He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Midlands–North-West constituency from 2014 to 2020.[3]
Carthy was born in Birmingham, England, in 1977. His mother is from County Monaghan and his father from County Roscommon. The family moved to County Roscommon when Carthy was aged two, where he lived until he was 10. His family then spent a year living in Holywell in north-east Wales before returning to Ireland to live in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan.
He has described the experience of living on the Irish border during the conflict as playing a formative role in shaping his republican political views, and cites hunger strikers Bobby Sands and Kieran Doherty as major influences.[4]
Carthy studied marketing for a year at the Dublin Institute of Technology, where he formed a Sinn Féin college cumann (branch) in 1996. Carthy was a founding member of Ógra Shinn Féin (a Sinn Féin youth organisation) the following year. He worked as a full-time youth organiser for Ógra in Dublin in Sinn Féin's party headquarters, and as a press officer for Sinn Féin.
Carthy lives in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, with wife Lynn and their five children.
