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词条 Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
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  1. Biography

  2. Political career

  3. References

  4. External links

{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
| honorific-suffix = TD
| image = Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin speaking to press 2013 crop.jpg
| office = Chair of the Committee on Justice and Equality
| term_start = 4 April 2016
| term_end =
| predecessor = Niall Collins
| successor =
| office1 = Leader of Sinn Féin in Dáil Éireann
| leader1 = Gerry Adams
| term_start1 = 22 September 1997
| term_end1 = 9 March 2011
| predecessor1 = Office created
| successor1 = Gerry Adams
| office2 = Teachta Dála
| term_start2 = June 1997
| term_end2 =
| constituency2 = Cavan–Monaghan
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|9|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = Monaghan, County Monaghan, Ireland
| death_date =
| death_place =
| nationality = Irish
| party = Sinn Féin
| spouse = Briege McGinn {{small|(m. 1985)}}[1]
| children = 5
| education =
| alma_mater =
| website =
|}}Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin ({{IPAc-ga|'|k|aoi|mh'|í|n'|-|ó|-|'|c|ao|l|ái|n'}}; born 18 September 1953) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cavan–Monaghan constituency since the 1997 general election. He was appointed Chair of the Committee on Justice and Equality in April 2016. He served as Leader of Sinn Féin in Dáil Éireann from 1997 to 2011.[1]

Biography

Ó Caoláin was born in Monaghan in 1953.[2] He was educated at St. Mary's CBS, Monaghan.[3] He was a bank official with the Bank of Ireland in the 1970s, and worked in a number of towns, including Ballinasloe. He became a senior bank official but then left the bank to concentrate on politics. Ó Caoláin is married to Briege McGinn and they have four daughters and one son.[2]

Ó Caoláin underwent successful cardiac surgery early in 2007. On 19 June 2007, it was reported that he was rushed to hospital,[4] but he was released shortly thereafter and has since made a full recovery.

Political career

He has been active in republican circles since the 1970s. He was Director of Elections in the Anti H-Block campaign of 1981 when Kieran Doherty was elected as a TD for the Cavan–Monaghan constituency. Between 1982 and 1985 he was general manager of the republican newspaper An Phoblacht. Ó Caoláin's first political success came in 1985 when he was elected to Monaghan County Council as a Sinn Féin councillor. In 1989, loyalist paramilitaries attempted to kill him and another Sinn Féin councillor.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}} At the 1984 and 1989 European Parliament elections he stood unsuccessfully in the Connacht–Ulster constituency.

Ó Caoláin represented Sinn Féin at the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation in Dublin in the mid-1990s. In 1996 he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Northern Ireland Forum election in Newry and Armagh.[5] He was also a member of the Sinn Féin negotiations team during the talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. At the 1997 general election he was elected to Dáil Éireann for the Cavan–Monaghan constituency, making him the first Sinn Féin TD elected since 1957 and the first Sinn Féin TD to take his seat at Dáil Éireann in Leinster House. He was subsequently re-elected at the 2002 general election and joined by four other Sinn Féin deputies. He was re-elected at the 2007 general election.[6] Ó Caoláin is currently Sinn Féin's spokesperson on Health and Children."[7] He accepts the average industrial wage and donates the remaining portion of his TD salary to his party.[8]

On 7 March 2018, Ó Caoláin announced that he will not contest the next general election.[9]

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=30&MemberID=837&ConstID=25 |title=Mr. Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin |work=Oireachtas Members Database |accessdate=9 October 2009}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/14980 |title=Profile of Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin |work=Sinn Féin party website |accessdate=8 May 2008}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://electionsireland.org/commentary.cfm?ID=3576 |title=Profile: Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin |work=ElectionsIreland.org |accessdate=23 January 2011}}
4. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhkfojgbidau/|title=SF's O'Caolain rushed to hospital from Dáil office|work=BreakingNews.ie|date=20 June 2007}}
5. ^Northern Ireland elections
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=3576|title=Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin|work=ElectionsIreland.org|accessdate=9 October 2009}}
7. ^Quote from the Sinn Féin website. Many Irish republicans use the term "Six Counties" to refer to Northern Ireland. See Alternative names for Northern Ireland.
8. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/greens-top-brass-give-up-836446000-of-salary-to-party-funds-2092433.html|title=Greens' top brass give up €46,000 of salary to party funds|work=Irish Independent|date=9 March 2010}}
9. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2018/0307/945781-sinn-fein-o-caolain/|title=Sinn Féin's Ó Caoláin will not contest next election|last=McMorrow|first=Conor|date=7 March 2018|work=RTÉ News|access-date=9 March 2018}}

External links

  • Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin's page on the Sinn Féin website
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10 : 1953 births|Living people|Local councillors in County Monaghan|Members of the 28th Dáil|Members of the 29th Dáil|Members of the 30th Dáil|Members of the 31st Dáil|Members of the 32nd Dáil|Politicians from County Monaghan|Sinn Féin TDs (post-1923)

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