Noel Grealish

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Noel Grealish

Teachta Dála for Galway West
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 June 2002
Preceded by	Bobby Molloy
Deputy Leader of the Progressive Democrats
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 May 2007
Preceded by	Liz O'Donnell
Councillor for Oranmore
In office June 1999 – July 2003

Political party	Progressive Democrats

Noel Grealish (Irish: Nollaig Ó Greallóis; born 16 December 1965) is an Irish Progressive Democrats politician, and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the constituency of Galway West.

Grealish first contested an election in 1999, when he was elected to Galway County Council to represent the Oranmore electoral area with 1,357 first preferences. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann in the 2002 general election with 2,735 first preferences, succeeding long-serving TD Bobby Molloy.

He was re-elected at the 2007 general election with 5,806 first preferences. As one of only two Progressive Democrat TDs elected in 2007, he was appointed as Chairman of the Progressive Democrats Parliamentary Party in June 2007. Grealish is Deputy Leader of the Progressive Democrats since May 2007 succeeding Liz O'Donnell in the position. Towards the end of 2007 Noel Grealish admitted that he had had discussions with a senior Fianna Fail politician about the possibility of him joining Fianna Fail but that he had decided to stay put with the Progressive Democrats for the time being.^[1]

Grealish was recently selected as the Chairman of the party's upcoming Local and European Parliament Election Campaign at a meeting in his Galway constituency.^{[citation needed]}

Summary of Internal Party Positions Currently Held:

Deputy Leader of the Progressive Democrats

Party Spokesman on Rural Planning

Chairman of the Parliamentary Party

Chairman of the Party's Local and European Parliament Election Campaign 2009