- Colm Keaveney
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Colm Keaveney TD Teachta Dála Incumbent Assumed office
February 2011Constituency Galway East Personal details Born 11 January 1971 Nationality Irish Political party Labour Party Website colmkeaveney.ie Colm Keaveney (born 11 January 1971) is an Irish Labour Party politician.[1] He was elected as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Galway East constituency at the 2011 general election.[2]
He is originally from the village of Garrafrauns, in north County Galway.[3]
He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Galway East constituency at the 1997 general election. He was first elected to Tuam town council in 1999.[2] Keaveney was elected to Galway County Council in 2004, gaining just under 2,000 votes in the Tuam electoral area.
He is a former SIPTU trade union official and former President of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI).[4]
At the 2011 general election, he was elected as the first ever Labour Party TD for the Galway East constituency.[5] He was elected after the ninth count with a total poll of 10,126 votes.
References
- ^ "Mr. Colm Keaveney". Oireachtas Members Database. http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=31&MemberID=2312&ConstID=104. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
- ^ a b "Colm Keaveney". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=4319. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
- ^ The Tuam Herald, Vol. 174, No. 41, p.1. Issue date 17 February 2011. ISSN 2009-3136
- ^ "Restoration of social welfare rights sought", Irish Times, 23 March 1996 p9
- ^ The Tuam Herald, Vol. 174, No. 43, p.1. Issue date 3 March 2011. ISSN 2009-3136
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(Fianna Fáil)Labour Party Teachta Dála for Galway East
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- Labour Party (Ireland) politicians
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- People from County Galway
- Members of the 31st Dáil
- Teachtaí Dála
- Local councillors in County Galway
- Irish trade unionists
- Alumni of University College Dublin
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