Rónán Mullen

Rónán Thomas Mullen (born 13 October 1970) is an Irish independent senator and former delegate to the Council of Europe. He is the leader of the Human Dignity Alliance, an extra-parliamentary anti-abortion political party formed in 2018. He was elected to the Seanad for the National University constituency in July 2007 and re-elected in 2011, 2016 and 2020. He topped the poll in every NUI Seanad election from 2011-2020. Mullen is a frequent media commentator on social and political topics. The first National University of Ireland senator appointed to the Council of Europe, he received international coverage for his role in defeating the McCafferty Report which sought to limit the right to conscientious objection for medical staff in the case of abortions.

Mullen was born and educated in County Galway, and studied French and English at University College Galway, where he became president of the Students' Union. Then, in 1993, he moved to Dublin and studied for a master's degree in journalism, after which he worked as a teacher and press secretary. In 1999 he began training as a barrister in the King's Inns, during which he won the Irish Times Debate. He was called to the Bar in 2003. Since 2001 he has been a lecturer in the Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown. Mullen's Seanad election profile describes him as a "full-time public representative".

Mullen was prominent in referendum campaigns opposing same-sex marriage in 2015 and abortion in 2018 respectively.

He formed the Human Dignity Alliance in 2018. He is a member of the European political party European Christian Political Party.