Colm Keaveney

Colm Keaveney TD
Teachta Dála
Incumbent
Assumed office February 2011
Constituency	Galway East
Personal details
Born	11 January 1971 (1971-01-11) (age 40)
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

1. ^ "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. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Colm Keaveney". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=4319. Retrieved 5 October 2011. 
3. ^ The Tuam Herald, Vol. 174, No. 41, p.1. Issue date 17 February 2011. ISSN 2009-3136
4. ^ "Restoration of social welfare rights sought", Irish Times, 23 March 1996 p9
5. ^ The Tuam Herald, Vol. 174, No. 43, p.1. Issue date 3 March 2011. ISSN 2009-3136

External links

• Official website
• Colm Keaveney's page on the Labour Party website

Oireachtas
Preceded by Noel Treacy (Fianna Fáil)	Labour Party Teachta Dála for Galway East 2011–present	Incumbent

Persondata
Name	Keaveney, Colm
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	January 1971
Place of birth	Garrafrauns
Date of death
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