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Martin Grady'sw election onto Kerry County Council and Killarney Municipal District ensures that the Grady family presence continues in local politics.
The Grady family have an unbroken record of representing the people of Killarney that stretches back to the 1960s.
He represents the continuation of the Grady family in local politics since his grandfather John who was first elected in 1963.

His uncle Sean (Donal’s brother) was the second member of the family to get elected.

Both brothers served together for some time but with the abolition of Town Councils in June 2014 the family decided that Donal would go alone and that Sean would retire.
Martin was co-opted into Kerry County Council following the retirement of his father Donal last year.
This was the first election that Martin has contested an election. Back in 2019, Donal was elected on 1.324 first preference votes but his novice son exceeded that vote by 85 votes.
Martin was elected on the first count with 2,053 first-preference votes.
“I am overwhelmed,” he told the Killarney Advertiser. “The people of Killarney have put their faith and trust in me. It is a special day for my family. The Gradys have held the town vote now for 25 years. But the work starts now, I owe it back to the people of Killarney.”