Verona Murphy Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

In November 2021 Murphy was accused of spreading anti-vax information in the Dáil by health minister Stephen Donnelly after Murphy stated studies had shown “that a vaccinated person is every bit as likely to transmit this virus as a non-vaccinated person”. Despite her assertions, Murphy insisted she was not “Anti-Vax” and had been vaccinated herself, but believed the choice to take vaccinations was up to the individual.

Murphy ran a haulage firm, Drumur Transport, with her business partner Joseph Druhan. The business closed in 2021.

On election day, Murphy received 9,543 (23.8%) first preference votes and was eliminated on the fourth count. Despite the defeat, Murphy insisted on election day that she would be Fine Gael’s candidate in the 2020 general election.

In the 2020 general election, Murphy was elected as an independent TD in the Wexford constituency.

She was selected as the Fine Gael candidate for the November 2019 Wexford by-election, which was called after the election of Mick Wallace to the European Parliament. During the by-election campaign, Murphy made remarks supporting Noel Grealish’s attempts to block a Direct Provision centre being created in Oughterard, County Galway, and suggested that immigrants coming to Ireland were being “infiltrated by ISIS” and would need to be “deprogrammed”. She claimed that immigrants as young as “three or four years old” were a danger because of ISIS brainwashing and that ISIS is a “big part” of the migrant population in Ireland.

In December 2019, Fine Gael de-selected Murphy as a candidate for 2020 general election, as a result of her behaviour during the November by-election. When asked again about Murphy after the by-election, Leo Varadkar stated “quite frankly I’m glad she didn’t get elected” and remarked; “What was done subsequently in terms of the video she did which sort of tried to imply the whole thing was a media character assassination attempt on her – I had a big problem with that because maybe it suggested to me that the apology and retraction wasn’t fully sincere.” Furthermore, Varadkar declared that it had been a “mistake” by Fine Gael to select Murphy as a candidate, a mistake for which he took responsibility.

Verona Murphy (born 1971) is an Irish Independent politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wexford constituency since the 2020 general election. Murphy is President of the Irish Road Haulage Association (IRHA).