Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
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Senator Pádraig Mac Lochlainn |
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Assumed office 27 April 2016 |
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| Constituency | Industrial and Commercial Panel |
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In office February 2011 – February 2016 |
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| Constituency | Donegal North-East |
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12 June 1973 Leeds, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Sinn Féin |
| Website | Official website |
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn ([ˈpˠaːd̪ˠɾˠəɟ mˠak ˈl̪ˠɔxl̪ˠənʲ]; born 12 June 1973) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who served as a Senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel since April 2017. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal North-East constituency from 2011 and 2016. He lost his seat at the 2016 general election but was subsequently elected to the Seanad in April 2016.
Mac Lochlainn was born in Leeds, England on 12 June 1973, the son of two Irish parents, Réamonn and Mary Mac Lochlainn. He is their only child. His father was a Provisional IRA volunteer who spent nine and a half years imprisoned in jails across England. Upon release in 1987, his father wrote a book about his prison experience called "Inside An English Jail" under the name of Raymond McLaughlin.
Mary Mac Lochlainn was raised in an Irish Traveller family making Pádraig Mac Lochlainn the first TD from a Traveller background. He was raised by his mother and grandmother for the duration of his father's imprisonment, and described them as “two strong, loving Traveller women” .
After his father's release from prison in England, Mac Lochlainn then aged 10 moved with his family to his father's home of Buncrana, County Donegal and he has lived there since. His father died in a drowning accident in Shannon, County Clare in 1985. He left school at the age of 14 and later returned to education as an adult through community development studies and distance learning. He worked in the painting and decorating trade for many years.
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