Clare Daly

Clare Daly
Clare Daly TD
Teachta Dála
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 February 2011
Constituency Dublin North
Fingal County Councillor
In office
1999–2011
Constituency Swords
Personal details
Born April 1968 (1968-04) (age 43)
Kildare, Ireland
Nationality Irish
Political party Socialist Party
Other political
affiliations
United Left Alliance
Alma mater Dublin City University
Website claredaly.ie

Clare Daly (born April 1968) is an Irish Socialist Party politician and trade union activist.[1] She was elected as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North constituency at the 2011 general election.[2] She was previously a Socialist Party councillor for the Swords electoral area on Fingal County Council.

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Early life

Daly was born in Kildare and educated at Dublin City University. She was twice elected president of the Students' Union and was prominent in the students' movement campaign for abortion rights and information. Daly was elected to Labour's Administrative Committee as a youth representative. She was expelled from the Labour Party in 1989 alongside Joe Higgins TD and other supporters of the Militant Tendency.

Career

Local politics

On 19 September 2003, Daly was jailed alongside 21 others from the Anti-Bin Tax Campaign for breaching a High Court order preventing protests leading to obstruction of the council's non-collection policy for those not paying bin charges.[3][4] She is a former SIPTU Shop Steward in Aer Lingus and was also an organiser of the Anti-Water charges campaign in Swords in the mid 1990s.

Daly was elected as a Councillor on Fingal County Council for the Swords area in 1999 with 14%. At the 2009 local elections, Daly was the only candidate in Swords to be elected on the 1st count with 3,192 first preference votes (20.5%). She received 7.2% at the 1997 general election and 8.2% at the by-election later in the year. At the 2002 general election she received 5,501 votes (12.5%), narrowly missing a seat. At the 2007 general election, she received 9% of the vote.

Dáil Éireann

Daly was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2011 general election taking 15.2% of the first preference vote.[5][6] She committed to facilitating the nomination of Senator David Norris for a place on the ballot paper ahead of the Irish presidential election, 2011.[7]

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Oireachtas
Preceded by
Trevor Sargent
(Green Party)
Socialist Party Teachta Dála for Dublin North
2011–present
Incumbent

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