1. Paul Nicholas Gogarty was born on 20 December 1968 and is an Irish independent politician who has been a Teachta Dala for the Dublin Mid-West constituency since the 2024 general election.
23 Facts About Paul Gogarty
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Paul Gogarty joined the Green Party in 1989 as a student.
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Paul Gogarty ran unsuccessfully in the 1991 local elections for Fingal County Council.
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Paul Gogarty was first elected at the 1999 local elections for the Lucan local electoral area of South Dublin County Council.
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Paul Gogarty previously contested the 1992 and 1997 general elections in the Dublin West constituency.
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Paul Gogarty ran at the 1996 Dublin West by-election caused by the death of Brian Lenihan Snr.
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Paul Gogarty was the first Green Party member to be elected in a three-seat constituency.
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In 2002,2003 and again in 2008, Paul Gogarty called for the pay of members of the Oireachtas to be cut.
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On 3 August 2010, Paul Gogarty wrote to the Clerk of the Seanad asking that newspaper claims alleging that Senator Ivor Callely had supplied phone expenses claims on headed paper belonging to a company which no longer existed be investigated.
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Paul Gogarty appeared on the RTE Joe Duffy radio show discussing this issue.
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Paul Gogarty went to Lucan Garda station the next day and requested an investigation.
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Paul Gogarty responded that his regular child minder was not available when the press conference was called.
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Paul Gogarty later clarified that the outburst was totally unintentional and not premeditated as some had suggested.
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Paul Gogarty said that the outburst had to be taken in the context of his contribution during the debate that day as well as a very turbulent and heated debate the previous night.
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Paul Gogarty withdrew from politics until 2014 after losing his Dail seat, and let his membership of the Green Party lapse.
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Paul Gogarty considered returning to the Green Party but ultimately ran a "low key campaign" as an independent.
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Paul Gogarty was elected on the 11th count to the fourth of eight seats in the Lucan local electoral area.
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In September 2015, Paul Gogarty announced his intention to contest the 2016 general election as part of the Independent Alliance in the Dublin Mid-West constituency.
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Paul Gogarty served as Mayor of South Dublin County Council from 2017 to 2018.
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Paul Gogarty was an unsuccessful candidate for Dublin Mid-West at the 2020 general election.
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Paul Gogarty was a successful candidate at the 2024 Irish general election, securing a seat in Dublin Mid-West.
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From July to November 2011, Paul Gogarty was involved in season 4 of the RTE television series Celebrity Bainisteoir managing Oughterard's Seamus O Maille GAA Club, Galway.
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Paul Gogarty released a music album on 17 February 2013.