Sean was elected to Ballybay Town Council in June 2009.
Sean is the outgoing Chairperson of the Ballybay branch of Fine Gael and a former Chairperson of Young Fine Gael in University College Dublin.

He is a Solicitor. Educated at Saint Patrick’s N.S., Ballybay, Saint Macartan’s College, Monaghan and University College Dublin. He graduated with a B.A. Honours Degree in Economics.

His priorities include:
 - A realistic plan at national and local level to create jobs in Counties Monaghan and Cavan.
- Retention & development of better health services at Monaghan General Hospital
- Support for our Farming Community
- Improved Child Care Facilities in our County
- Help for small businesses, exporters and inward investors by forcing down high costs on businesses, particularly those imposed by the Government.
- An end to hospital waiting lists in the health service
- Immediate abolition of the €10 Departure tax to help the tourism industry recover.
- A debt restructuring and debt forgiveness strategy for ordinary mortgage holders who are experiencing hardship.
- Political reform. We must start at the top by cutting the pay of politicians and top civil servants. We must abolish the Senate, eliminate quangos and strengthen local democracy.

 
The current Government has failed totally to put a plan in place to get the Banks to free credit to businesses and has allowed unemployment to spiral out of control. Fine Gael have argued for a cut in employers' PRSI on the low paid to get people back to work. Its a fairer alternative to a cut in the minimum wage. . We need to lower local authority rates where possible, freeze Government and local authority charges and reduce energy costs.
　
As a country we need a new Government with a clear electoral mandate and a stable majority which would offer far greater stability and certainty at this time of crisis. The new Government’s first priority must be to protect the most vulnerable in our society and they must help existing small business to grow and get people back to work. The current Government has failed totally to put a plan in place to get the Banks to free credit to businesses and has allowed unemployment to spiral out of control. I want to see Fine Gael promote a jobs strategy which will create the conditions for sustainable growth in our economy. We need to promote policies so that all our young people can find jobs at home and not be forced to emigrate, create an Ireland were those who wish to remain on the land can earn a good income from their hard work, an Ireland which encourages those who are self employed rather than penalising them, an Ireland which values the family, ordinary working people and pensioners, an Ireland which promotes social cohesion.
 
There are 2 crisis currently facing this country, the sovereign debt crisis and the debt relating to the banks. The sovereign debt crisis is wholly the fault of the current and previous Fianna fail governments over the last 10 years. This mismanagement of the economy has led to the large budget deficit which the country faces and has led to the severe cuts and tax increases of the last 2 years. This problem can be managed and overcome in the long term by prudent corrective action by a new government. The banking debt is in my view a much greater problem which faces not just Ireland but the whole of Europe. The reckless lending by the banks is a Eurozone problem in other words a problem for the European Union and should be seen as such by our government.
 
Political reform is a necessity at this time. The politicians who created this mess are not the people who will get us out of it. We need new politicians with new policies who are willing and prepared to face the problems we face as a nation in a rational and coherent manner. In order for any reforms to get public support our national politicians must lead by example. They must start by cutting their own pay and the pay of senior civil servants. We must end the culture of entitlement that afflicts a great number of our current leaders. I am in favour of the abolition of the Senate, the elimination of unnecessary quangos and the strengthening of local democracy.