Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD |
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| Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Disability Rights and Older People | |
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Assumed office 11 May 2016 |
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| Leader | Gerry Adams |
| Preceded by | position established |
| Teachta Dála | |
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Assumed office June 1997 |
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| Constituency | Cavan–Monaghan |
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| Born |
18 September 1953 Monaghan, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Sinn Féin |
| Spouse(s) | Briege McGinn |
| Children | 5 |
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin ([ˈkiːvʲiːnʲ oː ˈkiːlˠaːnʲ]; born 18 September 1953) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cavan–Monaghan constituency since 1997 and was the parliamentary leader of Sinn Féin in Dáil Éireann from 1997 to 2011.
Ó Caoláin was born in Monaghan in 1953. He was educated at St. Mary's CBS, Monaghan. 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.
Ó Caoláin underwent successful cardiac surgery early in 2007. On 19 June 2007, it was reported that he was rushed to hospital, but he was released shortly thereafter and has since made a full recovery.
He has been active in republican squares 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. At the 1984 and 1989 European Parliament elections he stood unsuccessfully in the Connacht–Ulster constituency.
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