Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (; born 8 February 1989) is an Irish
Sinn Féin
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politician who has been a
Teachta Dála
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(TD) for the
Cork South-Central constituency since the
2016 general election.
Ó Laoghaire is from
Togher, Cork. As a youth, he was a member of the local
Scouting Ireland
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group, the 37th Cork (Togher), before going on to be an adult volunteer in the Scout group in
The Lough. He attended
University College Cork
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(UCC) and graduated with a law degree. While in UCC, he joined Sinn Féin's youth wing
Ógra Shinn Féin, eventually taking a year out to work as an organiser for Ógra. He then worked as a parliamentary assistant for Sinn Féin politicians
David Cullinane,
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh and
Sandra McLellan.
While working as McLellan's parliamentary assistant, he ran in the
2014 Cork County Council election, and was elected, serving as a member of
Cork County Council from 2014 to 2016.
He was re-elected at the
2020 general election. As of 2021, he is Sinn Féin's spokesperson for Education.
In April 2021, Ó Laoghaire settled a defamation claim against
RTÉ
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for over €150,000 following comments made about Ó Laoghaire on
Liveline
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.
At the
2024 general election, Ó Laoghaire was re-elected to the Dáil.
In 2021, Ó Laoghaire married Eimear Ruane-McAteer. The couple have three children.
References
External links
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire's page on the Sinn Féin website
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Living people
Members of Cork County Council
Members of the 32nd Dáil
Sinn Féin TDs (post-1923)
1989 births
Members of the 33rd Dáil
Sinn Féin local councillors in the Republic of Ireland
Members of the 34th Dáil