Kevin Farrell is the Green Party Local Area Representative for Lucan and Palmerstown, and will be a Green Party Candidate for the Local Elections, which take place on 5th June 2009. Kevin was unanimously chosen as the party’s representative at a selection convention held in Muintir na Tire Hall.

Kevin is a native of Lucan, having grown up in Lucan Heights and attended school locally. He now lives in Tullyhall, Lucan with his wife Una and their young daughter.

Kevin is a seasoned community activist – he has been active on Lucan and Palmerstown issues for almost 17 years.

In 1991, he co-founded the West Dublin Planning Awareness Group in response to development threats to the Liffey Valley at St. Edmundsbury/Woodville. He joined ERAZE’s (Esker Residents Against Rezoning) campaign in South Lucan and Quarryvale (Liffey Valley shopping centre), a short time later, and was  elected to Lucan Community Council and Lucan Planning Council that year. To this day, he continues his involvement with the Lucan Planning Council.

In 1998, he joined ALARM (All Lucan Against Rezoning Madness) and later LTQL (Lucan Together for Quality of Life).  Kevin represented LTQL at an Bord Pleanála’s oral hearings on the Outer Ring Road, M50 Upgrade, N4 Upgrade and the Lucan Demesne Park & Ride proposals where he made written submissions and cross-examined the Council’s expert witnesses. He was an active member of the “Deliver-It Right” team that worked for improvements on the Adamstown SDZ and the Clonburris SDZ schemes. Most recently, he also represented the Green Party at the Oral Hearing against the proposed incinerator in Rathcoole.

Since June 2008, Kevin is the spokesperson for the Lucan Task-Force for an Educate Together Second-Level School.

Kevin has a Ph.D. in Computational Physics from Trinity College. He currently works as a Lecturer in Computing at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, where he is also the Branch Chairperson of the TUI (Teachers’ Union of Ireland).

Recently, he was involved in a research project led by FEASTA, the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, on the environmental and sustainability assessment of road proposals. Some of the roads studied in that project were the Lucan Outer Ring Road, the M50 Upgrade and N4 Upgrade schemes.