Mícheál Mac Donncha

Cllr
Mícheál Mac Donncha
Lord Mayor of Dublin
In office
June 2017 – June 2018
Preceded by Brendan Carr
Succeeded by Nial Ring
Dublin City Councillor
Assumed office
21 October 2011
Constituency Beaumont-Donaghmede
Personal details
Born Mícheál Mac Donncha
Donaghmede, Dublin, Ireland
Nationality Irish
Political party Sinn Féin
Alma mater St Fintan's High Scool,Sutton & UCD.

Mícheál Mac Donncha (born Michael McConkey)[1] is an Irish Sinn Féin politician, who served as the Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2017 to 2018. He has served as a Dublin City Councillor for Beaumont-Donaghmede area since May 2014.[2]

He was co-opted onto Dublin City Council in 2011, to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Killian Forde. He was elected in 2014 for the Beaumont-Donaghmede local electoral area.[3] He contested the General Election in 2016 as a Sinn Féin candidate in Dublin Bay North, one of two party candidates, his running mate Denise Mitchell being elected.

He was editor of An Phoblacht.[2] from 1990 to 1996. From 1997 to 2014 he served as Parliamentary Assistant to Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and for much of that time was manager of the Sinn Féin Oireachtas team. He is the author of a centenary history of Sinn Féin 'A Century of Struggle' (2005).

Mac Donncha as a child actor played a young version of the actor Marty Feldman in the 1976 film The Last Remake of Beau Geste.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Burns, John (15 April 2018). "Feldman had eyes on lord mayor as film star". The Times. Retrieved 27 April 2018 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  2. 1 2 "This man is the new Lord Mayor of Dublin city". TheJournal.ie. 26 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Micheál MacDonncha". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  4. ↑
Civic offices
Preceded by
Brendan Carr		 Lord Mayor of Dublin
2017–2018		 Succeeded by
Nial Ring
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