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Congressman Brendan Boyle.
Congressman Brendan Boyle has won reelection to the US House of Representatives.
Boyle, the son of a Glencolmcille man, represents Pennsylvania.
With votes still being tallied, Boyle will return for a sixth term in his heavily Democratic district in Philadelphia. The Associated Press have already declared Boyle as the winner.
Boyle, a former state lawmaker, staved off Republican Aaron Bashir.
The 47-year-old was re-elected to represent Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district and he leads the Democrats on the House Budget Committee. Boyle was first elected to Congress in 2014.
Prior to representing the Philadelphia district, Boyle was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015.
He has not ruled out contesting a US Presidential election in the future.
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Speaking at the 2023 MacGill Summer School on Glenties he said: “I will not rule anything out about my future. I am a big believer in just doing the job I’m doing and doing it well and those other opportunities naturally arise.”
His father, Francis, left Glencolmcille at the age of 19 in 1970 and worked a janitor on Philadelphia's rail transit system while his mother’s roots are in Sligo and Mayo. Prior to leaving Glen, one of the last works assignments Fancis Boyle had was as a teenage labourer on the construction of the Glencolmcille Folk Village.
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