Fiona O'Malley
| Fiona O'Malley | |
|---|---|
| Senator | |
| In office August 2007 – April 2011 |
|
| Constituency | Nominated by the Taoiseach |
| Teachta Dála | |
| In office June 2002 – June 2007 |
|
| Constituency | Dún Laoghaire |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 January 1968 |
| Political party | Independent (2009–11) |
| Other political affiliations |
Progressive Democrats (until 2009) |
| Website | Trinity College, Dublin, City University London |
Fiona O'Malley (born 19 January 1968) is a former Irish politician.[1] She was a Progressive Democrats Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dún Laoghaire constituency from 2002 until 2007, and was a member of Seanad Éireann from 2007 to 2011.[2]
Career
O'Malley comes from a political family. Her father, Desmond O'Malley, was a former Fianna Fáil cabinet minister and founder of the Progressive Democrats party. Her granduncle Donogh O'Malley, was a Fianna Fáil minister in the 1960s. She is also a cousin of another former Progressive Democrats TD, Tim O'Malley.
A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and City University London, she worked as an Arts Administrator before entering politics and as a Personal assistant to Liz O'Donnell from 1998 to 2000.[3] Her first political position was as elected member of the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council from 1999. She was elected to Dáil Éireann for the Dún Laoghaire constituency at the 2002 general election. She resigned her council seat in 2003 when the dual mandate was no longer allowed.[4]
She was a member of the Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Sports and Tourism and the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children. She was also a member of the Dáil All-Party group concerned with matters of sexual and reproductive health. She has travelled to South America and South Africa with the United Nations Population Fund and has spoken extensively of the need for a clear safe sex message both in Ireland and in the developing world.
She lost her Dáil seat at the 2007 general election, but was nominated by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern to the Seanad in August 2007. She was narrowly defeated in the race to become the leader of the Progressive Democrats by Ciarán Cannon.
She was an Independent politician from the dissolution of the Progressive Democrats in 2009.[1] She was an independent candidate at the 2011 Seanad election for the University of Dublin constituency but was not elected.[4]
See also
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| Oireachtas | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by | Progressive Democrats Teachta Dála for Dún Laoghaire 2002–2007 |
Succeeded by Seán Barrett (Fine Gael) |
- Living people
- 1968 births
- Progressive Democrats TDs
- Politicians from County Limerick
- Female Teachtaí Dála
- Female members of Seanad Éireann
- Members of the 29th Dáil
- Members of the 23rd Seanad
- Local councillors in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown
- People from Dún Laoghaire
- Alumni of Trinity College, Dublin
- Alumni of City University London
