Linda Kavanagh

Linda Kavanagh (died 17 March 2003) was a leading member of the Workers' Party of Ireland and a member of Dublin City Council.

Linda Kavanagh

Linda Kavanagh died aged 46 on 17 March 2003 after a brief illness. A native of Inchicore she joined the Workers' Party in the mid 1980s and represented the party in a number of elections. She worked closely with former Workers' Party President and Dublin West TD Tomás Mac Giolla and when he retired from public life in 1998 she was co-opted in his place onto Dublin City Council.

She was involved in a large number of community organisations in the Ballyfermot area and in Inchicore where she lived. She worked at St. James' Hospital and later became a full-time project worker with the Markiewicz Centre in Ballyfermot. She was the first chairperson of Ballyfermot Partnership and a founding member of the Lower Ballyfermot Tenants and Residents Association.

In the mid 1990s Kavanagh won a landmark Supreme Court ruling regarding the adoption rights of non-married couples and she had also won compensation for householders for conversion of their homes to smokeless fuels.

She fought for the provision of a new club house for St. Matthew's Boxing Club in Ballyfermot and for the provision of a centre in Inchicore for drug misusers. The new centre was opened in 2006 and was named the Kavanagh Centre in her honour. It was officially opened on 4 May by the then Minister of State at the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Noel Ahern TD who said, “”As a resident of Inchicore, as the first chairperson of the Inchicore Community Drug Team and as a city councillor, Linda worked tirelessly on behalf of the disadvantaged and particularly drug misuers. I understand that one of her last tasks was to sign the legal papers to secure this building. I know that the management committee of the Inchicore Drug Team are very thankful to the Kavanagh family for allowing the use of her name for the premises. It will be a permanent reminder to all, of her work and dedication to the people of this community”^[1] Linda Kavanagh is survived by her husband and daughter.

References

↑ Mr Noel Ahern T.D. (17 May 2006). "Launch of Inchicore Community Drug Team’s new premises - Kavanagh House". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27.

Official IRA and the Workers' Party

General	Anti-Treaty IRA Sinn Féin The Troubles (Timeline) Marxist-Leninism Popular front Two-stage theory Anti-sectarianism Officials-Provisionals split Free Derry United Irishman The Irish People

Actions	1969 Northern Ireland riots Falls curfew Aldershot bombing

Personalities	Cathal Goulding Seán Garland Roy Johnston C. Desmond Greaves Joe McCann Ronnie Bunting Thomas 'Ta' Power Des O'Hagan Malachy McGurran Billy McMillen Jim Sullivan Kenneth Littlejohn Seamus Costello Eoin Ó Murchú Tomás Mac Giolla Francis Hughes Paddy O'Callaghan Mickey Devine Michael Gaughan Henry McDonald Johnnie White Seán Ó Cionnaith Mairín De Burca Hugh Torney Dominic Behan Martin O'Hagan Eoghan Harris Eamonn Melaugh Proinsias De Rossa Eric Byrne Pat McCartan Joe Sherlock Liz McManus Pat Rabbitte Seamus Lynch Michael Enright Eamon Gilmore Catherine Murphy Marian Donnelly Francie Donnelly Tom French Patrick Gallagher John Halligan Linda Kavanagh Kathleen Lynch Des Geraghty Mick Finnegan Ted Tynan Michael Donnelly John Lowry Gerry Grainger

Associates	Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association Connolly Association (Communist Party of Great Britain) Peace Train Organisation IMCWP INITIATIVE

Derivatives	Irish National Liberation Army Irish Republican Socialist Party Democratic Left Irish Socialist Network Official Republican Movement

Prominent killings	Seamus Costello John Barnhill Gerard Weston

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