James Doorley is deputy director at the National Youth Council of Ireland. [1]
He has been a member of the Member of the National Economic and Social Council [2] since 2011. He is also a member of the Dental Council. [3] and the Dental Council's Fitness to Practice Committee. He served as Chairman of the Consumer's Association of Ireland [4] from 2007 until 2010. He was the Irish representative on the European Consumer Consultative Group. [5] from 2010 until 2013. From 2012 until 2016 he served as a member of the board of the Property Services Regulatory Authority. [6] He was a member of the Consumer Panel of the Financial Regulator [7] from 2005 to 2010.
He was formerly a Trustee of the Carnegie Trust for the UK and Ireland. [8] from 2004 until 2015. He also previously served as Vice President of the European Youth Forum. [9] from 2004 to 2006.
He was an independent candidate for the National University of Ireland Seanad Éireann constituency in 2011 receiving 655 first preference votes. [10]
Originally from Borrisokane, [11] County Tipperary, he is a Tipperary hurling supporter. He currently lives in Ashbourne, County Meath. [12]
The counties of Ireland are historic administrative divisions of the island. They began as Norman structures, and as the powers exercised by the Cambro-Norman barons and the Old English nobility waned over time, new offices of political control came to be established at a county level. The number of counties varied depending on the time period, however thirty-two is the traditionally accepted and used number.
Richard James Mulcahy was an Irish Fine Gael politician and army general who served as Minister for Education from 1948 to 1951 and 1954 to 1957, Minister for the Gaeltacht from June 1956 to October 1956, Leader of the Opposition from 1944 to 1948, Leader of Fine Gael from 1944 to 1959, Minister for Local Government and Public Health from 1927 to 1932 and Minister for Defence from January to April 1919 and 1922 to 1924. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1918 to 1938 and from 1943 to 1961 and a Senator from March 1938 to June 1938 and 1943 to 1944. He served in the cabinets of W. T. Cosgrave and John A. Costello.
Events from the year 1935 in Ireland.
John Gerard Hanafin is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician, who was a member of Seanad Éireann from 2002 to 2011. He was elected by the Labour Panel. Hanafin is the brother of the former cabinet minister Mary Hanafin and the son of the former Senator, Des Hanafin. He was first elected to the Seanad in 2002 and re-elected in 2007. He was a member of North Tipperary County Council representing the Thurles area from 1988 to 2003.
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