Declan Breathnach

Declan Breathnach
TD
Junior Opposition Spokesperson for North-South Bodies & Cross Border Cooperation
Assumed office
19 May 2016
Leader Micheál Martin
Preceded by New Office
Teachta Dála
Assumed office
February 2016
Constituency Louth
Louth County Councillor
In office
June 1991 – February 2016
Constituency Dundalk South
Personal details
Born (1958-06-03) 3 June 1958
Knockbridge, County Louth, Ireland
Nationality Irish
Political party Fianna Fáil
Spouse(s) Jane Breathnach
(m. 1981; div. 2007)
Children 2
Alma mater St Patrick's College, Dublin
Website declanb.ie

Declan Breathnach (born 3 June 1958) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency since the 2016 general election.[1]

A native of Knockbridge, Dundalk, he studied at the Christian Brothers School, Dundalk and has a Bachelor of Education from St Patrick's College, Dublin. He worked as a primary school teacher for 35 years – first in St. Brigid's School, Dunleer (12 years) and then as Principal of Walshestown National School (23 years).[2] Breathnach has actively farmed from an early age.

Breathnach has been a member of Fianna Fáil since his early teens. He has served as a Cumann Secretary, member of the officer board of Louth Comhairle Dáil Ceantair (constituency council) and as the Louth constituency representative on the Fianna Fáil National Executive, a position held up until his election as a Louth County Councillor in 1991. Since Breathnach's first election to Louth County Council in 1991, he successfully retained he seat for 25 years, across 5 elections.

He served as Joint Chairperson of the Memorandum of Association between Down Council and Louth Council from 2010–2015. He has also been a member of the East Border Regions committee. He has also served as the Chairperson of the Louth County Council Special Policy Group on Infrastructure, European and Cross-Border Matters.

Breathnach continued to serve as a Louth County Councillor until 2016. He successfully contested the Louth constituency at 2016 general election, receiving 9,099 first preference votes (13.5%) and was elected on the sixth count.[3] He previously contested the Louth constituency at 2011 general election but was not elected.

Breathnach is Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on North-South Bodies & Cross-Border Co-Operation and is also Vice-Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. He also serves as Vice-Chairperson of the British–Irish Parliamentary Assembly.

References

  1. ↑ "Election 2016: Declan Breathnach". RTÉ News. 28 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Declan Breathnach TD". Fianna Fáil. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Declan Breathnach". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
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