Declan Breathnach

Declan Breathnach TD


Teachta Dála
Incumbent
Assumed office February 2016
Constituency	Louth

Personal details
Born	(1958-06-01) 1 June 1958 Knockbridge, Louth, Ireland
Nationality	Irish
Political party	Fianna Fáil
Spouse(s)	Jane Breathnach (m. 1981; div. 2007)
Children	2
Alma mater	St. Patrick's College
Website	declanb.ie

Declan Breathnach (born 1 June 1958) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency, upon being elected at the 2016 general election.

A native of Knockbridge, Dundalk, he studied at the Christian Brothers School in Dundalk and has a Bachelor of Education from St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. He worked as a primary school teacher for 35 years.

First elected to Louth County Council in 1991, he successfully retained the seat for 25 years, across 5 elections. He contested the 2011 general election for Fianna Fáil in which he secured 5,177 first preference votes, but was unsuccessful on this occasion. He continued to serve as a Louth County Councillor until 2016. He successfully contested the 2016 general election. Amassing 9,099 first preference votes and was elected.

References

Current members of Dáil Éireann
As elected to the 32nd Dáil in 2016 Ceann Comhairle: Seán Ó Fearghaíl
Fine Gael (50)	Bailey Barrett Breen Brophy Bruton Burke C. Byrne Cannon Carey Corcoran Kennedy Coveney Creed J. Daly D'Arcy Deasy Deering R. Doherty Donohoe Doyle Durkan English Farrell Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Flanagan Griffin Harris Heydon Humphreys Kehoe E. Kenny Kyne Madigan McEntee McHugh McLoughlin Mitchell O'Connor D. Murphy Eoghan Murphy H. Naughton Neville Noonan O'Connell O'Donovan O'Dowd Phelan Ring Rock Stanton Varadkar§
Fianna Fáil (44)	Aylward Brassil Breathnach Browne Butler T. Byrne Cahill Calleary Casey Cassells L. Chambers J. Chambers N. Collins Cowen Curran Donnelly Dooley Fleming Gallagher Haughey Kelleher Lahart Lawless M. Martin§ McConalogue Michael McGrath McGuinness A. Moynihan M. Moynihan Murphy O'Mahony Eugene Murphy D. O'Brien O'Callaghan Ó Cuív O'Dea O'Keeffe O'Loughlin O'Rourke Rabbitte Scanlon Brendan Smith Smyth Troy
Sinn Féin (23)	Adams§ Brady Buckley Crowe Cullinane P. Doherty Ellis M. Ferris Funchion M. Kenny McDonald Mitchell Munster Nolan J. O'Brien Ó Broin Ó Caoláin Ó Laoghaire O'Reilly Ó Snodaigh Quinlivan Stanley Tóibín
Labour Party (7)	Burton Howlin§ Kelly J. O'Sullivan Penrose B. Ryan Sherlock
AAA–PBP (6)	Barry Boyd Barrett Coppinger G. Kenny P. Murphy Bríd Smith
Independents 4 Change (4)	Broughan J. Collins C. Daly Wallace
Green Party (2)	C. Martin E. Ryan§
Social Democrats (2)	C. Murphy§ Shortall§
Workers and Unemployed Action (1)	Healy§
Independent (18)	Canney^† M. Collins Connolly Fitzmaurice^† Grealish Halligan^† Harty D. Healy-Rae M. Healy-Rae Lowry F. McGrath^† Mattie McGrath Moran^† D. Naughten M. O'Sullivan Pringle Ross^† Zappone
§Party leaders Italics = Ministers ^†Ind. Alliance

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