1. Kathy Sinnott is an American-Irish disability rights activist and politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the South constituency from 2004 to 2009.
11 Facts About Kathy Sinnott
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Kathy Sinnott married Irishman Declan Sinnott when they were both aged twenty one.
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Kathy Sinnott is secretary of the Hope Project, a charity that helps people with disabilities.
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Kathy Sinnott campaigned on disability, education, anti-abortion, euroscepticism and social conservatism issues.
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Kathy Sinnott had stood previously at the 2002 general election for a seat in the Cork South-Central constituency, and narrowly lost the fifth and final seat to John Dennehy of Fianna Fail.
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Kathy Sinnott was an unsuccessful candidate at the subsequent Seanad Eireann election, after she had been nominated by four sitting independent TDs, losing out by three votes to a Fine Gael candidate.
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Kathy Sinnott required a High Court judgment to allow her to run for the Seanad on the Labour Panel.
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Kathy Sinnott was featured in a German TV expose where MEPs were filmed signing up at 7am for their daily attendance allowance prior to then leaving parliament for the day, in 2008.
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On 8 June 2009, Kathy Sinnott lost her seat in the European Parliament.
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Kathy Sinnott was a final year philosophy student at the Southern Catholic College in Dawsonville, Georgia.
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In 2015, Kathy Sinnott campaigned against the 2015 referendum on same-sex marriage as part of the "First Families First" campaign group, alongside John Waters.