1. Sharon Keogan was born on March 1967 and is an Irish independent politician who has served as a senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel since June 2020.
19 Facts About Sharon Keogan
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Sharon Keogan joined an alliance of independent candidates known as New Vision.
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Sharon Keogan is still part of an independent alliance of various candidates.
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Sharon Keogan unsuccessfully contested the general elections of 2011,2016 and 2020 in the Meath East constituency.
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Sharon Keogan was a member of Meath County Council from 2014 to 2020, representing the Laytown-Bettystown local electoral area.
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Sharon Keogan tried to claim two State grants after her election in two boroughs.
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Sharon Keogan was replaced in this seat by Amanda Smith.
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Sharon Keogan made national headlines in January 2020, after she posted on her Facebook account asking whether disabled children should be microchipped following the death of Nora Quoirin in Malaysia.
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Sharon Keogan speculated that her anti-drug views had made her a target of local criminals.
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In September 2021 Sharon Keogan was criticised after she stated that there is "an organised takeover at every level in our society" by the LGBT community in response to the Katherine Zappone controversy.
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Sharon Keogan went on to indicate that she believed that "governments around the world" are trying to "catapult" LGBT people into high-level jobs.
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Sharon Keogan wrote, "I wish to object to this deeply personal attack on me during a public meeting and contend that the language used by the member was inflammatory, discriminatory and sought to characterise me and my contribution unfairly" and commented that the committee was acting like an "echo chamber".
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Sharon Keogan resigned from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in April 2022, stating that she no longer felt "safe or protected as a member of the committee".
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O'Gorman reiterated his defence of the spending, denied any bias, and suggested that Sharon Keogan was acting entirely in bad faith and that she knew the spending was entirely routine.
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In February 2024 Members of the Dail expressed concerns over an event held in Leinster House organised by Sharon Keogan, titled "WHO pandemic treaty, know the facts", which featured far-right and anti-vaccination advocates.
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In March 2024 the Electoral Commission issued a statement after Sharon Keogan erected misleading campaign posters during the 2024 Irish constitutional referendums.
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The statement read "An Coimisiun Toghchain is clear that one of the posters which have been posted in a number of areas in Dublin and elsewhere under the imprint of Senator Sharon Keogan is an incorrect representation of what people are being asked to vote on this Friday", and that Keogan's posters "misrepresents what the current provision and its proposed amendment actually mean".
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Sharon Keogan stood by her posters and complained about the Commission's intervention.
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Sharon Keogan was criticised for that view, amongst others, in an article by Una Mullally for The Irish Times.