About the Lord Mayor

Lord Mayor Emma Blain is a Fine Gael councillor representing the Pembroke local electoral area on Dublin City Council. She has been an elected representative since 2016, and served as a councillor on Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council until being elected to Dublin City Council in June 2024.

Lord Mayor Blain values the participation and promotion of sport within our communities, particularly for women and girls. She is also actively engaged in positive ageing planning, care for the elderly within our communities and dementia awareness.

During her term as Lord Mayor, she will prioritise these areas alongside the positive promotion of Dublin City as the richly cultured, inviting and vibrant capital city that it is.

Lord Mayor Blain has been an Irish delegate to the European Committee of the Regions since 2020.

She grew up in Rathmines, where her father Sydney was the Principal of the Church of Ireland College of Education. 

She has two children, Hunter (10) and Tilly (9).

After graduating with an MA in Politics from UCD, she worked as a journalist with the Sunday Independent, and is now the editor of the Church of Ireland Gazette.