Michael Conaghan
{{Short description|Irish former politician (born 1944)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Use Hiberno-English|date=July 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Michael Conaghan, 2008 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Conaghan in 2008
| office = Teachta Dála
| term_start = February 2011
| term_end = February 2016
| constituency = Dublin South-Central
| office1 = Lord Mayor of Dublin
| term_start1 = June 2004
| term_end1 = June 2005
| predecessor1 = Royston Brady
| successor1 = Catherine Byrne
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|9|4|df=y}}
| birth_place = Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland
| death_date =
| death_place =
| nationality = Irish
| party = Labour Party
| spouse = Marian Conaghan
| children = 2
| alma_mater = University College Dublin
|}}
Michael Conaghan (born 4 September 1944) is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency from 2011 to 2016. He also served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2004 to 2005.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Michael-Conaghan.D.2011-03-09/|title=Michael Conaghan|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=23 April 2011|archive-date=8 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708044921/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Michael-Conaghan.D.2011-03-09/|url-status=live}}
Biography
Conaghan is originally from County Donegal. He lives in Ballyfermot, Dublin and is married with two children.{{cite web|url=http://www.labour.ie/michaelconaghan/|title=Michael Conaghan TD|work=The Labour Party website|access-date=27 February 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110407070937/http://www.labour.ie/michaelconaghan/|archive-date=7 April 2011}} He is a teacher by profession, and was vice-principal of Inchicore College of Further Education.
Originally a member of Jim Kemmy's Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), he was the unsuccessful DSP candidate in Dublin West at the 1982 by-election and the November 1982, 1987, and 1989 general elections. When the party merged with Labour in 1991, he was elected to Dublin City Council representing the Ballyfermot local electoral area.{{cite web|url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=3529|title=Michael Conaghan|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=23 April 2011|archive-date=12 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312182733/http://electionsireland.org//candidate.cfm?ID=3529|url-status=live}} At the 1997 general election, he was an independent candidate in Dublin Central.
He was Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2004 to 2005.{{cite web|url=https://www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/2020-09/lord-mayors-of-dublin-1665-2021.pdf|title=Lord Mayors of Dublin 1665–2020 |work=Dublin City Council|date=June 2020|access-date=18 November 2023}}
He was elected as a Labour TD for Dublin South-Central at the 2011 general election, but did not contest the 2016 general election.{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/labour-td-confirms-he-will-not-contest-next-general-election-1.2268287|title=Labour TD confirms he will not contest next general election|work=The Irish Times|date=30 June 2015|access-date=12 August 2015|archive-date=3 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703035303/http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/labour-td-confirms-he-will-not-contest-next-general-election-1.2268287|url-status=live}}
References
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Category:Alumni of University College Dublin
Category:Democratic Socialist Party (Ireland) candidates in Dáil elections
Category:Labour Party (Ireland) TDs
Category:Lord mayors of Dublin
Category:Members of the 31st Dáil
Category:Politicians from County Donegal
Category:People from Letterkenny