- Clare Daly
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Clare Daly TD Teachta Dála Incumbent Assumed office
26 February 2011Constituency Dublin North Fingal County Councillor In office
1999–2011Constituency Swords Personal details Born April 1968 (age 43)
Kildare, IrelandNationality Irish Political party Socialist Party Other political
affiliationsUnited Left Alliance Alma mater Dublin City University Website claredaly.ie Clare Daly (born April 1968) is an Irish Socialist Party politician and trade union activist.[1] She was elected as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North constituency at the 2011 general election.[2] She was previously a Socialist Party councillor for the Swords electoral area on Fingal County Council.
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Early life
Daly was born in Kildare and educated at Dublin City University. She was twice elected president of the Students' Union and was prominent in the students' movement campaign for abortion rights and information. Daly was elected to Labour's Administrative Committee as a youth representative. She was expelled from the Labour Party in 1989 alongside Joe Higgins TD and other supporters of the Militant Tendency.
Career
Local politics
On 19 September 2003, Daly was jailed alongside 21 others from the Anti-Bin Tax Campaign for breaching a High Court order preventing protests leading to obstruction of the council's non-collection policy for those not paying bin charges.[3][4] She is a former SIPTU Shop Steward in Aer Lingus and was also an organiser of the Anti-Water charges campaign in Swords in the mid 1990s.
Daly was elected as a Councillor on Fingal County Council for the Swords area in 1999 with 14%. At the 2009 local elections, Daly was the only candidate in Swords to be elected on the 1st count with 3,192 first preference votes (20.5%). She received 7.2% at the 1997 general election and 8.2% at the by-election later in the year. At the 2002 general election she received 5,501 votes (12.5%), narrowly missing a seat. At the 2007 general election, she received 9% of the vote.
Dáil Éireann
Daly was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2011 general election taking 15.2% of the first preference vote.[5][6] She committed to facilitating the nomination of Senator David Norris for a place on the ballot paper ahead of the Irish presidential election, 2011.[7]
References
- ^ "Meet your 76 new TDs". RTÉ News. 9 March 2011. http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0309/newtds1.html.
- ^ "Ms. Clare Daly". Oireachtas Members Database. http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=31&MemberID=2296&ConstID=84. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
- ^ "Jail sentences for Joe Higgins and Clare Daly". Breakingnews.ie. 19 September 2003. http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/jail-sentences-for-joe-higgins-and-clare-daly-114124.html.
- ^ Managh, Ray (18 September 2003). "TD and councillor risk jail in bin tax protest". Irish Independent. http://www.independent.ie/national-news/td-and-councillor-risk-jail-in-bin-tax-protest-205360.html.
- ^ "Clare Daly". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?id=336. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
- ^ "Higgins pledges to build new party of left as five elected under ULA banner". The Irish Times. 28 February 2011. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0228/1224291015357.html.
- ^ "Boost for Norris as left-wing TDs to support nomination". The Irish Times. 19 September 2011. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0919/1224304355542.html.
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Oireachtas Preceded by
Trevor Sargent
(Green Party)Socialist Party Teachta Dála for Dublin North
2011–presentIncumbent Socialist Party elected representatives Councillors Teachtaí Dála Clare Daly · Joe HigginsMEPs Paul Murphy (substitute for Joe Higgins)Categories:- 1968 births
- Living people
- Socialist Party (Ireland) politicians
- Alumni of Dublin City University
- Irish Trotskyists
- People from County Kildare
- Local councillors in Fingal
- Teachtaí Dála
- Members of the 31st Dáil
- Female Teachtaí Dála
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