Editing Progressive Democrats (section)

===Later events===
At the [[2011 Irish general election|2011 general election]] 11 former Progressive Democrats members stood as candidates for the Dáil in a country-wide spread of constituencies. Three former PD members were elected: [[Mary Mitchell O'Connor]] (PD Councillor 2004–2008) was elected in [[Dún Laoghaire (Dáil constituency)|Dún Laoghaire]] for Fine Gael, [[Ciarán Cannon]] (PD Senator 2007–2009 / party leader 2008–2009) was elected in [[Galway East (Dáil constituency)|Galway East]] for the same party, while [[Noel Grealish]] (PD TD 2002–2009 / caretaker party leader 2009) was re-elected as an independent TD for [[Galway West (Dáil constituency)|Galway West]]. Several ex-PD members stood for election to Seanad Éireann in 2011. [[Cáit Keane]] was elected as a Fine Gael senator; she had served on [[South Dublin County Council]] for the PDs between 1991 and 2008, and had stood for election in the [[Dublin South-Central (Dáil constituency)|Dublin South-Central constituency]] for the PDs in 1992, 1994 and 1997.

As of 2024, Noel Grealish remains in the Dáil, having been re-elected as an independent in [[2011 Irish general election|2011]], [[2016 Irish general election|2016]], [[2020 Irish general election|2020]] and [[2024 Irish general election|2024]].