Noel Coonan (born 6 January 1951) is an Irish Fine Gael politician and is currently a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary North constituency.^[1]

He was elected at the 2007 general election to Dáil Éireann for Tipperary North. He was previously a member of the 22nd Seanad Éireann in 2002 for Fine Gael, elected by the Cultural and Educational Panel.^[2]

A former member of North Tipperary County Council, and Templemore Town Council he was an unsuccessful candidate for Dáil Éireann in the Tipperary North constituency at the 2002 general election.

He was the Fine Gael Deputy spokesperson on Agriculture, Fisheries and Food with special responsibility for CAP reform from October 2010 to March 2011. He was previously on Deputy spokesperson on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources with special responsibility for Telecommunications from 2007–10.

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• Official website
• Noel Coonan's page on the Fine Gael website

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Peadar Kirby is an author and academic at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick. Up to the academic year 2006/2007 he was a Senior Professor at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. He specialises in issues concerning Latin America. He is a fluent speaker of the Irish language. He was involved in the Centre for International Studies at Dublin City University. While there he gave lectures on 'Globalization: Global Political Economy', and 'Latin America: From colony to periphery.'

Kirby has published a number of books on the Economy of Ireland. He has also written on Latin America (including liberation theology), and is the author of a textbook on the subject (Introduction to Latin America: Twenty-First Century Challenges, 2003).

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Books by Peadar Kirby include:

• Celtic Tiger in Collapse: Explaining the Weaknesses of the Irish Model, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
• Vulnerability and Violence: The Impact of Globalisation, Pluto Press, 2005.
• Introduction to Latin America: Twenty-first Century Challenges, Sage Publications, 2003, ISBN 0-7619-7373-7.
• The Celtic Tiger in Distress: Growth with Inequality in Ireland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
• Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society and the Global Economy, Pluto Press, 2002.
• Rich and Poor: Perspectives on Tackling Inequality in Ireland, Oak Tree Press, in association with the Combat Poverty Agency, 2001.
• In the Shadow of the Tiger, DCU Press, 1998.
• Poverty Amid Plenty: World and Irish Development Reconsidered, Trocaire and Gill & Macmillan, 1997.
• Ireland and Latin America: Links and Lessons, Trócaire and Gill and Macmillan, 1992.
• Dialann ó Nicearagua, An Clóchomhar, 1990, ISBN 0-669-14172-3.
• Has Ireland a Future?, Mercier Press, 1988.
• Is Irish Catholicism Dying?, Mercier Press, 1984.
• Lessons in Liberation: The Church in Latin America, Dominican Publications, 1981.

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• Home Page

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Séamus Healy (born 9 August 1950) is an Irish politician. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Tipperary South since the general election in February 2011,^[1] having previously held the seat from 2000 to 2007.^[2]

He is part of the Clonmel based Workers and Unemployed Action Group (WUAG) which has a number of local representatives on South Tipperary County Council and Clonmel Borough Council. He is a former member of the League for a Workers Republic.^[3]

A former hospital administrator, Healy was first elected to Clonmel Borough Council in 1985.^[3] He was elected to the 28th Dáil at a by-election on 22 June 2000. He was re-elected at the 2002 general election, but lost his seat at the 2007 general election to Martin Mansergh of Fianna Fáil.^[4][5] After losing his Dáil seat he has returned to serve as councillor in South Tipperary for Clonmel, being co-opted for Pat English, after which he was appointed to various committees such as the local Vocational Education Committee, promotion of the Irish language and various water supply committees.

His brother Paddy Healy served as president of the Teachers' Union of Ireland and ran unsuccessfully in the Seanad elections in 2007 on the NUI panel, and in the 1980s ran in the Dublin North–East Dáil constituency as an Anti H-Block candidate.^[6]

Séamus Healy was re-elected to South Tipperary County Council at the 2009 local elections.^[4]

Healy won back his seat at the 2011 general election with 21.3% of the first preference vote.^[7][8]

On 15 December 2011, he helped launch a nationwide campaign against the household charge being brought in as part of the 2012 Irish budget.^[9]

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