Colm Keaveney
| Colm Keaveney | |
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| Teachta Dála | |
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In office February 2011 – February 2016 |
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| Constituency | Galway East |
| Chairman of the Labour Party | |
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In office 15 April 2012 – 26 June 2013 |
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| Leader | Eamon Gilmore |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
11 January 1971 County Galway, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Fianna Fáil (since 2013) |
| Other political affiliations |
Labour Party |
| Website | www |
Colm Keaveney (born 11 January 1971) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was elected as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Galway East constituency at the 2011 general election, He sat as an independent TD after losing the Labour whip in December 2012. He resigned from the party in June 2013, and joined Fianna Fáil in December 2013. He is a former Chairman of the Labour Party. He lost his seat at the 2016 general election
He is originally from the village of Garrafrauns, in north County Galway.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Galway East constituency at the 1997 general election. He was first elected to Tuam town council in 1999. Keaveney was elected to Galway County Council in 2004, gaining just under 2,000 votes in the Tuam electoral area.
He is a former SIPTU trade union official and former President of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI).
At the 2011 general election, he was elected as the first ever Labour Party TD for the Galway East constituency. He was elected after the ninth count with a total poll of 10,126 votes. At the 2012 Labour party Conference in Galway, he was elected Chairman of the Labour party.
At the 2012 Labour party Conference in Galway, he was elected Chairman of the Labour party. Following the publication of the 2012 Constituency Commission report, he was listed by The Irish Times as one of 13 TDs most likely to lose their seats in the next election. New boundaries see Galway East lose a seat and the transfer of 20,500 voters out of the constituency, centred on his home town of Tuam.
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