Joe Behan

Joe Behan

Joe Behan (born 30 July 1959)cite web |url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=5310 |title=Joe Behan's electoral history |work=ElectionsIreland.org |accessdate=2008-03-23] is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He is currently a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wicklow constituency. [cite web |url=http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=30&MemberID=2168&ConstID=184 |title=Mr. Joe Behan |work=Oireachtas Members Database |accessdate=2008-03-23] He was elected in the 2007 general election.

A teacher from Bray, Behan was a long-serving member of Bray Town Council and Wicklow County Council,cite web |url=http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/1996/0509/96050900009.html |title=Roche fails to get FF nomination |author= |date=9 May 1996 |work=The Irish Times |accessdate=2008-03-23] winning holding his seat in the 1999 and 2004 local elections. He was Cathaoirleach (chairman) of Wicklow County Council from 2006 to 2007, but in accordance with the abolition of the dual mandate under the Local Government Act 2001 he was deemed to have resigned his council seats when elected to the Dail in 2007. [cite web |url=http://www.wicklow.ie/publications/Council%20Minutes/Minutes%2011%206%2007.pdf |title=Minutes of Council meeting on 11 June 2007 |publisher=Wicklow County Council |accessdate=2008-03-23]

Behan unsuccessfully sought the Fianna Fáil nomination to contest the 1997 general election in the Wicklow constituency. He did not win a nomination until December 2006, when he was one of three candidates selected by the party for the 2007 general election. [cite web |url=http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2006/1216/1166137964497.html |title=FF ends selection saga in Wicklow and confirms three candidates |author=Miriam Donohoe |date=16 December 2006 |work=The Irish Times |accessdate=2008-03-23]

References

External links

* [http://www.fiannafail.ie/person.phpx?pid=214&bid=498&rel=TD&aid=146 Joe Behan's page] on the Fianna Fáil website

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