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Election 2016

Niamh Smyth

Party

Fianna Fáil

Constituency

Cavan-Monaghan

Occupation

Councillor and education officeer

ELECTED

Biography

Elected first as Cavan county councillor in 2009, she was re-elected in 2014 when she topped the poll in her constituency. Currently the arts education officer for Cavan Monaghan Education and Training Board, she is active in a number of local community organisations in her area.

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