Clare Daly
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Clare Daly TD |
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| Teachta Dála | |
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Assumed office February 2016 |
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| Constituency | Dublin Fingal |
| Teachta Dála | |
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In office February 2011 – February 2016 |
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| Constituency | Dublin North |
| Fingal County Councillor | |
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In office 1999–2011 |
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| Constituency | Swords |
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| Born | April 1968 (age 49) Newbridge, Kildare, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Independents 4 Change (since 2015) |
| Other political affiliations |
United Left (2013–15) Socialist Party (1996–2012) Labour Party (−1989) |
| Spouse(s) | Michael Murphy |
| Alma mater | Dublin City University |
| Website | www |
Clare Daly (born April 1968) is an Irish Independents 4 Change politician.
She was elected as a Socialist Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North constituency at the 2011 general election. She was previously a Socialist Party councillor for the Swords electoral area on Fingal County Council. She resigned from the Socialist Party on 31 August 2012, redesignating herself as a United Left Alliance TD.
Daly is from Newbridge, County Kildare. Her father, Kevin Daly, was a Colonel in the Irish Army and Director of Signals. She is a long-standing atheist, though her brother and an uncle are in the Catholic priesthood. Daly studied accountancy at Dublin City University. She was twice elected president of the Students' Union and was prominent in the students' movement campaign for abortion rights and information. On leaving college she took a job in the catering section of Aer Lingus on a low wage, and became SIPTU's shop steward at Dublin Airport when the airline was engaged in extensive cost-cutting and outsourcing. Daly was elected to the Labour Party's Administrative Committee as a youth representative. She was expelled from the Labour Party in 1989 alongside Joe Higgins and other supporters of the Militant Tendency.
On 19 September 2003, Daly was jailed for a month, alongside 21 others from the Anti-Bin Tax Campaign for breaching a High Court order preventing protests leading to obstruction of the council's non-collection policy for those not paying bin charges. She was also an organiser of the Anti-Water charges campaign in Swords in the mid-1990s.
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