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  Ó Caoláin, Caoimhghín
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AffiliationSinn Féin  
  2016-01-01  
 
NameCaoimhghín Ó Caoláin
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Monaghan, , Ireland
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Born September 18, 1953 (70 years)
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InfoCaoimhghín Ó Caoláin (born 1953) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician. He has been a TD for Cavan Monaghan since 1997 and is currently the Parliamentary Leader of Sinn Féin in Dáil Éireann.

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin was born in Monaghan in 1953. He has been active in Irish Republican circles for a number of years. He was Director of Elections in the H-Block campaign of 1981 when Kieran Doherty was elected 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. Monaghan (Muineachán in Irish) is a town in the Republic of Ireland, the administrative capital of County Monaghan.

Ó Caoláin represented Sinn Féin at the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation in Dublin in the mid-nineties and was also a member of the Sinn Féin negotiations team during the talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. In 1997 he was elected to Dáil Éireann for the first time as a TD for Cavan Monaghan, becoming the first modern Sinn Féin Teachta Dála. He was subsequently re-elected in 2002. At the last general election he was joined by four other Sinn Féin deputies. Ó Caoláin is currently Sinn Féin's Parliamentary Group Leader in the Dáil and is also spokesperson on the Peace Process and the Six Counties (i.e Northern Ireland). He is also has party spokesperson for Finance and Health & Children.


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  03/10/2016 Irish Ceann Comhairle Lost 0.00% (-100.00%)
  02/26/2016 Irish Dáil - Cavan-Monaghan Won 16.87% (+0.00%)
  02/25/2011 Irish Dail - Cavan/Monaghan Won 12.93% (-2.99%)
  06/06/2007 Taoiseach Lost 2.41% (-51.20%)
  05/24/2007 Irish Dail - Cavan/Monaghan Won 17.62% (-0.80%)
  05/17/2002 Irish Dail - Cavan/Monaghan Won 18.93% (+0.27%)
  06/06/1997 Irish Dail - Cavan/Monaghan Won 19.37% (+4.25%)
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  10/26/2018 Irish President Lost 0.00% (-55.81%)
ENDORSEMENTS
Irish 36th Amendment (Repeal Abortion Ban) - May 25, 2018 YES Yes
Irish 34th Amendment (Marriage Equality) - May 22, 2015 YES Yes