词条 | Declan Breathnach |
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| name = Declan Breathnach | honorific-suffix = TD | image = Declan Breathnach 2016.jpg | office1 = Teachta Dála | term_start1 = February 2016 | term_end1 = | constituency1 = Louth | office2 = Louth County Councillor | term_start2 = June 1991 | term_end2 = February 2016 | constituency2 = Dundalk South | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|6|3|df=y}} | birth_place = Knockbridge, County Louth, Ireland | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = Irish | party = Fianna Fáil | spouse = Dorothy Breathnach {{small|(m. 1981; div. 2007)}} | children = 2 | education = | alma_mater = St Patrick's College, Dublin | website = {{URL|declanb.ie}} }}Declan Breathnach (born 3 June 1958) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency since the 2016 general election.[1] A native of Knockbridge, Dundalk, he studied at the Christian Brothers School, Dundalk and has a Bachelor of Education from St Patrick's College, Dublin. He worked as a primary school teacher for 35 years – first in St. Brigid's School, Dunleer (12 years) and then as Principal of Walshestown National School (23 years).[2] Breathnach has actively farmed from an early age. Breathnach has been a member of Fianna Fáil since his early teens. He has served as a Cumann Secretary, member of the officer board of Louth Comhairle Dáil Ceantair (constituency council) and as the Louth constituency representative on the Fianna Fáil National Executive, a position held up until his election as a Louth County Councillor in 1991. Since Breathnach's first election to Louth County Council in 1991, he successfully retained he seat for 25 years, across 5 elections. He served as Joint Chairperson of the Memorandum of Association between Down Council and Louth Council from 2010–2015. He has also been a member of the East Border Regions committee. He has also served as the Chairperson of the Louth County Council Special Policy Group on Infrastructure, European and Cross-Border Matters. Breathnach continued to serve as a Louth County Councillor until 2016. He successfully contested the Louth constituency at 2016 general election, receiving 9,099 first preference votes (13.5%) and was elected on the sixth count.[3] He previously contested the Louth constituency at 2011 general election but was not elected.[4] Breathnach is Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on North-South Bodies & Cross-Border Co-Operation and is also Vice-Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. He also serves as Vice-Chairperson of the British–Irish Parliamentary Assembly. References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/election-2016/candidates/759689-declan-breathnach/|title=Election 2016: Declan Breathnach|work=RTÉ News|date=28 February 2016}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.fiannafail.ie/people/declan-breathnach/|title=Declan Breathnach TD|publisher=Fianna Fáil|access-date=30 August 2018}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Declan-Breathnach.D.2016-10-03/|title=Declan Breathnach|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=31 August 2018}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?id=650|title=Declan Breathnach|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=24 February 2019}} External links
8 : 1958 births|Living people|Fianna Fáil TDs|Local councillors in County Louth|Irish school principals and headteachers|Irish schoolteachers|Members of the 32nd Dáil|People from Dundalk |
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