Maria Steen

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Maria Steen (née Davin) is an Irish conservative campaigner and a member of the Iona Institute, a socially conservative and Catholic lobbyist organisation. She earned a degree in architecture from University College Dublin and later qualified as a barrister. She campaigned unsuccessfully against the 2015 referendum to legalise same-sex marriage in Ireland and the 2018 referendum to legalise abortion. She was part of the successful campaign against the 2024 referendums to expand the constitutional definition of family and to replace language relating to women's duties in the home with a gender-neutral article on care. In 2025, she failed in her bid to run in the 2025 Irish presidential election, falling two nominations short of the 20 required from members of the Oireachtas to qualify for the ballot. She is currently a homemaker and homeschools her five children.

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