Malcolm Noonan (born September 1966) is an Irish

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politician who has served as a

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since July 2020 and as a

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(TD) for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency since February 2020. Before entering politics, Noonan worked for twenty years as a community and environmental activist with

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. He was a member of

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for the

Kilkenny Kilkenny (). is a city in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is located in the South-East Region and in the province of Leinster. It is built on both banks of the River Nore. The 2016 census gave the total population of Kilkenny as 26,512. Kilken ...

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from 2004 to 2020 and was Mayor of Kilkenny from 2009 to 2010. Maria Dollard was co-opted to Noonan's seat on

following his election to the Dáil. In 2011, Noonan contested the leadership of the Green Party. He was a candidate at the Carlow–Kilkenny by-election and at the 2016 general election. At the 2020 general election, he won a seat in Carlow–Kilkenny, taking the last of five seats on the tenth count. Noonan had proven transfer-friendly, and told ''

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'', "for the first time, we didn’t have to sell the climate issue this election. Young people were asking us what we were going to do". On 1 July 2020, he was appointed by the Fianna Fáil–Fine Gael–Green coalition government as

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with responsibility for Heritage and Electoral Reform.

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Green Party profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Noonan, Malcolm Living people 1966 births Local councillors in County Kilkenny Mayors of places in the Republic of Ireland Members of the 33rd Dáil Green Party (Ireland) TDs Mayors of Kilkenny Ministers of State of the 33rd Dáil Members of Kilkenny Archaeological Society