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 41)
Nationality Irish
Political party Labour Party
Website www.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

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