Séamus Healy (; born 9 August 1950) is a former Irish

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politician who served as a

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(TD) from 2000 to 2007 and 2011 to 2020. He is part of the Clonmel-based Workers and Unemployed Action (WUA) which had a number of local representatives on

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and Clonmel Borough Council. He is a former member of the League for a Workers Republic.International Trotskyism, 1929–1985: a documented analysis of the movement By Robert Jackson Alexander, p. 576. A former hospital administrator, Healy was first elected to Clonmel Borough Council in

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. He was elected to the

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at a

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on 22 June 2000. He was re-elected at the 2002 general election, but lost his seat at the 2007 general election to

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. After losing his Dáil seat, he returned to serve as a

lor for the Clonmel local electoral area, being co-opted for Pat English, after which he was appointed to various committees such as the local

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, promotion of the Irish language and various water supply committees. Healy was re-elected to South Tipperary County Council at the 2009 local elections. He won back his seat at the 2011 general election with 21.3 per cent of the first preference vote. On 15 December 2011, he helped launch a nationwide campaign against the household charge being brought in as part of the 2012 Irish budget. He stood for re-election to the new Tipperary constituency as an Independent in the 2016 general election, and was elected on the seventh count. He voted for both

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and

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for

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when the

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first met. Healy's brother Paddy Healy served as president of the Teachers' Union of Ireland and ran unsuccessfully in the Seanad elections in 2007 and 2011 for the NUI panel, and in the 1980s ran in the Dublin North-East constituency as an Anti H-Block candidate.Paddy Healy
www.electionsireland.org He works as a voluntary researcher for Seamus. Healy lost his seat at the 2020 general election.

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