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24 Mar

The Republic's increasing the distance

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And someone should really have let Sinn Féin's Dáil Leader, Caoimhghin O'Caolain in on this secret when he recently gushed:. “We have clearly to accept the logic that a single island economy that would be to the benefit of all people on …... Continue reading »

09 Jan

State accused of health system 'apartheid'

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Sinn Fein health spokesman Caoimhghin O Caolain said: “The Taoiseach's financial affairs as raised at the tribunals and the doubts about his tax compliance are serious but they pale into insignificance when compared to public-private …... Continue reading »

22 Dec 2007

Cowen gave Harney no confidence vote, FG claims

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Sinn Fein health spokesman Caoimhghin O Caolain said the inter-departmental letter showed that the Government was at sixes and sevens on health spending. “The leak of this letter is to prepare people for more cuts ahead.” …... Continue reading »

29 Nov 2007

Harney close to tears as she defends health record

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Sinn Fein TD Caoimhghin O'Caolain said his party was supporting the no-confidence motion. Earlier, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said there had been a very prompt response to the news last week that 97 women could have been falsely reassured …... Continue reading »

21 Nov 2007

RTÉ News: Taoiseach backs Irish honours system

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Labour’s Eamon Gilmore said the more he heard about the idea the less he liked it, asking how an honours system would be compatible with a republic where everyone was equal. But Caoimhghin O’Caolain of Sinn Féin said he was in favour of …... Continue reading »

02 Aug 2006

SF plays tributes to hunger striker Doherty

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Sinn Fein activists joined Cavan-Monaghan TD Caoimhghin O’Caolain at the front of Dail Eireann today to pay tribute to IRA-man Kieran Doherty who died on hunger strike in 1981.... Continue reading »

Who is Caoimhghin O Caolain?

Party: Sinn Féin

Constituency: Cavan-Monaghan

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin was born in Monaghan in 1953. He was a bank official with the Bank of Ireland in the 1970s, and served in a number of towns, including Ballinasloe. He became a senior bank official but then left the bank to concentrate on politics. He has been active in republican circles for years. He was Director of Elections in the Anti H-Block campaign of 1981 when Kieran Doherty was elected TD for the Cavan-Monaghan constituency. Between 1982 and 1985 he was general manager of the republican newspaper An Phoblacht. Ó Caoláin\’s first political success came in 1985 when he was elected to Monaghan County Council as a Sinn Féin councillor. In 1989, loyalist paramilitaries attempted to kill him and another Sinn Féin councillor.

Ó Caoláin represented Sinn Féin at the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation in Dublin in the mid-1990s and was also a member of the Sinn Féin negotiations team during the talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. In the 1997 general election he was elected to Dáil Éireann for the Cavan Monaghan constituency, making him the first Sinn Féin TD elected since 1957 and the first Sinn Féin TD to take his seat at Dáil Éireann in Leinster House. He was subsequently re-elected in 2002 and joined by four other Sinn Féin deputies. He was re-elected in 2007. Ó Caoláin is currently Sinn Féin\’s Parliamentary Group Leader in the Dáil and is \”spokesperson on the peace process and the Six Counties\”[1] (Northern Ireland), as well as on health and children.

-Excerpt from Wikipedia page for Caoimhghin O Caolain

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