Mark Dearey

Mark Dearey (born 19 March 1963 in Dundalk, County Louth) is a County Councillor on Louth County Council and a member of Dundalk Town Council for the Irish Green Party. He was elected in 2004 to the Town Council and re-elected in 2009 and also elected to the County Council for the first time.
He was the Green Party candidate at the 2007 general election in the Louth constituency andrecieved 7% of first preference votes but was not elected.
He first came to public attention in County Louth in 1994 when he and three others fromd the county took a court action against British Nuclear Fuels Limited, to seek an end to reprocessing at Sellafield. That court action is still ongoing and the Stop Thorp Alliance Dundalk group have continued to highlight the dangers of reprocessing nuclear fuel, the alternatives to reprocessing, and the lack of urgency of Government to make Ireland's case.
In the early 1990s he taught in Colaiste Eanna in Dublin before embarking on a career in organic horticulture where he worked for nine years. He then acquired the music venue and bar, The Spirit Store in Dundalk which he still owns and manages.
He is a Director of Turas, the addiction counselling service. He is a founding member of the Newry Dundalk Farmers Market, Chairman of the St. Patrick's Day Committee, and is also a member of the Board of Friends of the Earth, Ireland.

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