Dan Boyle (politician)

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Dan Boyle
Dan Boyle (politician)
Incumbent
Assumed office 
August 3, 2007
In office
6 June 2002 – 14 June 2007
Preceded by Deirdre Clune
Succeeded by Deirdre Clune
Councillor for Cork South Central
In office
1991 – 2002
Succeeded by Christopher O'Leary
Political party Green Party

Dan Boyle (Irish: Donal O'Baoil; born 14 August 1962) is an Irish Green Party politician and party chairperson. He is currently a member of Seanad Éireann having being appointed as a Taoiseach's nominee on 3 August 2007. He was formerly a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork South Central from 2002–2007 and was the Green Party spokesperson on Finance, Social & Family Affairs and Community, Rural Development & the Islands during the 29th Dáil. He was also the Party Chief Whip.

Dan Boyle was born in Chicago in the United States to emigrant Irish parents. He has lived in his mother's native city of Cork since eight years of age in the Turners Cross area of the city. He was educated at local schools - Scoil Chríost Rí and Coláiste Chríost Rí, and at the Cork Institute of Technology where he studied Business Studies and Child Care. In 1991 he was elected to Cork Corporation, where he served until 2002. In the 2002 general election he was elected to Dáil Éireann for the first time. He is married to Bláithín Hurley and has one daughter, Saoirse.

The 2007 general election saw Boyle losing his seat in the Dáil. He was subsequently part of the Green Party's negotiation team that negotiated a programme that brought the party into the Irish government for the first time in its history. He was appointed as Deputy Leader of the Seanad on 16 August 2007.[1]

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  1. ^ New deputy pledges Seanad reform – BreakingNews.ie, 16 August 2007.

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