Conor Sheehan is a sitting Limerick City and County Councillor who won back the Labour Party seat in the City North ward after sitting Cllr Frankie Daly left the party, keeping the seat in both 2019 and the 2024 elections.

Sheehan contested the country’s first ever directly elected mayoralty in Limerick in June 2024, finishing with 2,390 votes.

Age 31, he took almost 12 per cent of the vote in his electoral area in the local elections in June.

Sheehan has a BA degree in French and German and was awarded the French Embassy Prize in French Studies at Dublin City University where he graduated with a BA in Journalism.. On December 1st, 2024, he won back a Dáil seat for Labour which it lost in 2020.