Michael McCarthy (politician)

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For other people of the same name, see Michael McCarthy (disambiguation).
Michael McCarthy
TD
Teachta Dála
Assumed office
February 2011
Constituency Cork South–West
Senator
In office
September 2002 – February 2011
Constituency Labour Panel
Personal details
Born (1976-11-15) 15 November 1976 (age 47)
Dunmanway, County Cork, Ireland
Nationality Irish
Political party Labour Party
Website www.michaelmccarthy.ie

Michael McCarthy (born 15 November 1976) is an Irish Labour Party politician, who was elected as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South–West constituency at the 2011 general election.[1] A former member of Seanad Éireann, McCarthy was first elected to the Seanad in 2002, and was re-elected in 2007, on the Labour Panel on both occasions. A native of Dunmanway in west Cork, he entered politics at the age of twenty-two by gaining a seat for the Labour Party on Cork County Council in the Skibbereen Electoral Area.

He was the Labour Party spokesperson on Marine, and acted as spokesperson in the Seanad on Agriculture, Community and Rural Affairs, and Communications, Marine and Natural Resources.

McCarthy stood unsuccessfully as a Labour Party candidate for the Cork South–West constituency at the 2002 and 2007 general elections, before being elected to the Dáil at the 2011 general election.[2]

References

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Oireachtas
Preceded by Labour Party Teachta Dála for Cork South–West
2011–present		 Incumbent
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