Former Labour Party TD and Lord Mayor of Dublin Michael Conaghan has died at the age of 81.<\/p>\n
Mr Conaghan was elected to the D\u00e1il for Dublin South Central in 2011, serving one term before stepping away prior to the 2016 General Election.<\/p>\n
The Donegal native took the second of two Labour seats in the constituency alongside Eric Byrne on a memorable day for the party at the 2011 election.<\/p>\n
He served 20 years as a councillor on Dublin City Council after his election in 1991, topping the poll on three occasions in the Ballyfermot ward.<\/p>\n
The former teacher was elected as Lord Mayor in 2004.<\/p>\n
Paying tribute, Labour leader Ivana Bacik said: “As a member of the first Oireachtas all-party group on commemorations, one of Michael’s greatest political achievements was securing the preservation of Richmond Barracks as a cultural and educational hub for the people of the South-West Inner City and beyond, in the run up to the centenary of 1916.”<\/p>\n
He was survived by his wife Marian and his daughters Heidi and Eve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Labour Party TD and Lord Mayor of Dublin Michael Conaghan has died at the age of 81.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-584367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}