Ciarán Cuffe
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Cllr Ciarán Cuffe |
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| Minister of State for Horticulture, Sustainable Travel, Planning and Heritage | |
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In office 23 March 2010 – 23 January 2011 |
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| Taoiseach | Brian Cowen |
| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Dublin City Councillor | |
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Assumed office 14 May 2014 |
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| Constituency | North Inner City |
| Teachta Dála | |
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In office May 2002 – February 2011 |
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| Constituency | Dún Laoghaire |
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| Born |
3 April 1963 Shankill, Dublin, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Green Party |
| Education | Gonzaga College |
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| Website | www |
Ciarán Cuffe (born 3 April 1963) is an Irish Green Party politician who served as Minister of State for Horticulture, Sustainable Travel, Planning and Heritage from 2010 to 2011. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dún Laoghaire constituency from 2002 to 2011. He currently sits as a Dublin City Councillor for the North Inner City.
He was born in Shankill, Dublin. George Skakel, a founder of Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, is his maternal grandfather through Patricia Sistine Skakel (1925-2000). His mother was Ethel Skakel Kennedy's sister. His cousins include the children of Skakel and Robert F. Kennedy. His granduncle was the Fianna Fáil TD Patrick Little.
Cuffe attended the Children's House Montessori School in Stillorgan, Gonzaga College in Ranelagh, the University of Maine at Orono, University College Dublin, and the University of Venice. He has degrees in architecture and town planning from University College Dublin. He lectures in urban planning at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Bolton Street.
He joined the Green Party in 1982, and campaigned with Students Against the Destruction of Dublin in the 1980s. Cuffe was twice elected to Dublin City Council in 1991 and 1999 for the South Inner City electoral area.
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