Laura Harmon
Laura Harmon | |
|---|---|
Harmon in 2025 | |
| Senator | |
| Assumed office 30 January 2025 | |
| Constituency | Industrial and Commercial Panel |
| Cork City Councillor | |
| In office June 2024 – January 2025 | |
| Constituency | Cork City South West |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 November 1986 Cork, Ireland |
| Party | Labour Party |
| Alma mater | University College Cork |
Laura Harmon (born 26 November 1986) is an Irish Labour Party politician who has been a senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel since January 2025. She was a member of Cork City Council for the South West area from June 2024 to January 2025.
She is the leader of the Centre-Left Cross-Party group in Seanad Éireann with Labour colleage Nessa Cosgrove, Malcom Noonan from the Green Party and Patricia Stephenson from the Social Democrats. Senator Harmon was appointed Labour's spokesperson for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and for Disability.
She is a former president of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI). She was the first woman to fill the role in twenty years. In 2018, Harmon was mobilisation team lead for the Together For Yes campaign to repeal the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.