Paul Kavanagh (died 19 March 2022) was an Irish businessman and politician. He briefly served as a

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member of the

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. He was

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, on 26 June 1989, to fill a vacancy after the 1989 general election. He did not contest the 1989 Seanad election. He was the chief executive of Stream International. Kavanagh was also a member of the board of

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& CTT. Kavanagh died on 19 March 2022, after a brief illness at University Hospital Limerick.

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