Ned O'Sullivan

Ned O'Sullivan
Senator
Assumed office
13 September 2007
ConstituencyLabour Panel
Personal details
Born (1950-11-25) 25 November 1950 (age 73)
Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland
Political partyFianna Fáil
SpouseMadeleine Murphy (m. 1987)
RelationsKit Ahern (Cousin)
Children3
Alma mater

Ned O'Sullivan (born 25 November 1950) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as a Senator for the Labour Panel since July 2007.[1][2]

He was a member of Listowel Town Council from 1985 to 2007 and Kerry County Council from 1991 to 2007.[3] He was an unsuccessful Fianna Fáil candidate in the Kerry North constituency at the 1989 Irish general election and at the 1992 general election.[3]

He was educated at University College Dublin and St Patrick's College of Education, Drumcondra, he worked as a teacher at primary and secondary level in Dublin, Offaly and Kerry before taking over his family's menswear business in Listowel. He was a cousin of Kit Ahern, who served as a TD and Senator.

In December 2008, he sent silk ties (worth €25 each) to approximately 400 County councillors.[4] He is the Fianna Fáil Seanad spokesperson on Transport, Tourism and Sport. In June 2011, it was revealed that 3,600 premium line votes from a phone in Leinster House at a cost of €2,600 to the Irish taxpayer helped Michael Healy-Rae win Celebrities Go Wild in 2007.[5] O'Sullivan admitted making "around a dozen" calls and texts to support Healy-Rae after being asked to do so by Healy-Rae's campaign manager.[6]

He is the Fianna Fáil Seanad spokesperson on Tourism and Heritage.

  1. ^ "Ned O'Sullivan". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
  2. ^ Collins, Stephen (2011). Nealon's Guide to the 31st Dáil and 24th Seanad. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. p. 208. ISBN 9780717150595.
  3. ^ a b "Ned O'Sullivan". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
  4. ^ "Beware senators bearing Xmas gifts". The Sunday Times. 14 December 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2009.[dead link]
  5. ^ "Inquiry into Dáil calls to TV show sought". RTÉ News. 28 June 2011.
  6. ^ "Ned O'Sullivan admits to some Healy-Rae calls". RTÉ News. 29 June 2011.