Seán Ó hArgáin
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Seán Ó hArgáin is an elected councillor in Kilkenny city, Ireland, who was elected to Kilkenny Borough Council in June 2004. He was subsequently elected as the Kilkenny City representative to the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland, 2004 and elected to its National Standing Committee for 2004-2005. He was elected member of Kilkenny County Development Board in Sep. 2004 and as Director of Watergate Municipal Theatre in Sep. 2004.
At national level, Ó hArgáin was elected Deputy President of the Union of Students in Ireland (1986-1987), and was as National Vice-Chair of Labour Youth in 1988. He served on the Labour Party's National Youth Committee from 1988 to 1991. Ó hArgáin worked with Joe Costello TD and the late Pat Upton TD, when both were beginning their Oireachtas careers, as well as working with Breeda Moynihan-Cronin TD in his ten years as a party activist in Kerry South. He was one of the main head office workers in Mary Robinson's presidential election campaign in 1990. He was a member of the Labour Party General Council (National Executive) from 1996 to 2003, and was elected as the Labour Party's substitute candidate for Munster in the 2000 European elections.
Ó hArgáin contested the local elections in Kerry south in the 1999 local elections, recording the party's highest ever vote in the Killorglin electoral area.
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[edit] Personal
Ó hArgáin is married to Marian Flannery, formerly of the Carmel Hotel, John St in Kilkenny city who works as an Independent Project Management Consultant. They have two children, Fionn, aged 15 and Caoilfhionn, aged 11.
[edit] Education
Educated at St. Finians N.S., Waterville, Co. Kerry, St. Finians College, Mullingar, Waterville Vocational School, Froebel College of Education and Trinity College, Dublin. Holder of an Honours B.Ed. degree.
Ó hArgáin graduated with an Honours Masters in Science (M.Sc.) Degree in Computing in Education from IT Tralee and Cork IT in 2000.
[edit] Professional
Ó hArgáin is a primary teacher in the city's Irish language primary school, Gaelscoil Osraí.
Formerly a Learning Support (Remedial) teacher, Seán chaired the Kerry branch of the Irish Learning Support Association for five years.
