Áine Brady (; born 8 September 1954) is an Irish former

Fianna Fáil Fianna Fáil ( ; ; meaning "Soldiers of Destiny" or "Warriors of Fál"), officially Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party (), is a centre to centre-right political party in Ireland. Founded as a republican party in 1926 by Éamon de ...

politician who served as a

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from 2009 to 2011. She was a

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(TD) for the Kildare North constituency from 2007 to 2011. She was

's youth organiser in the early 1980s, and a member of the party's national executive. Her first electoral outing was at the 1981 election to the

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, when she stood unsuccessfully on the

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. She was a teacher at Scoil na Mainistreach in

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for 22 years. She was an unsuccessful candidate for

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at the Kildare North by-election in 2005, but won a seat at the 2007 general election. Brady is the sister of former Fianna Fáil chief whip Tom Kitt and of former

Michael P. Kitt, and the daughter of former TD Michael F. Kitt. She is married to former TD Gerry Brady, they have four children. On 22 April 2009, as part of a junior ministerial reshuffle, Brady was appointed as Minister of State at the Departments of Health and Children, Social and Family Affairs and the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, with special responsibility for Older People and Health Promotion.; She lost her seat at the 2011 general election. Brady and her husband attended the 2020 Oireachtas Golf Society Dinner.

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