Marcella Corcoran Kennedy
Irish former Fine Gael politician (b. 1963)
2016–2017
February 2016 – February 2020
February 2011 – February 2016
Marcella Corcoran
(1963-01-07) 7 January 1963 (age 61)
London, England
Seamus Kennedy
(m. 1996)Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (born 7 January 1963) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Minister of State from 2016 to 2017. She served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 2011 to 2020.[1][2][3]
Corcoran Kennedy was a member of Offaly County Council from 1999 to 2009 for the Ferbane local electoral area. At the 2011 general election, she was elected to the Laois–Offaly constituency, and then at the February 2016, she was elected for the Offaly constituency.
On 19 May 2016, she was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Health with special responsibility for Health Promotion by the Fine Gael–Independent government on the nomination of Taoiseach Enda Kenny.[4][5] She was not re-appointed after Leo Varadkar became Taoiseach on 14 June 2017.
She contested the 2020 general election for the reformed constituency of Laois–Offaly, but was not re-elected.
References
- ^ "Marcella Corcoran Kennedy". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
- ^ Collins, Stephen (2011). Nealon's Guide to the 31st Dáil and 24th Seanad. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. p. 134. ISBN 9780717150595.
- ^ "Marcella Corcoran Kennedy". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 16 October 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
- ^ "Appointment of Ministers of State" (PDF). Iris Oifigiúil. 2016 (47): 804–806. 10 June 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ Health (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2017 (S.I. No. 178 of 2017). Signed on 26 April 2017. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 26 March 2021.
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Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for the Laois–Offaly constituency
This table is transcluded from Laois–Offaly (Dáil constituency). (edit | history)
| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd | 1921 | Joseph Lynch (SF) | Patrick McCartan (SF) | Francis Bulfin (SF) | Kevin O'Higgins (SF) | 4 seats 1921–1923 | |||||
| 3rd | 1922 | William Davin (Lab) | Patrick McCartan (PT-SF) | Francis Bulfin (PT-SF) | Kevin O'Higgins (PT-SF) | ||||||
| 4th | 1923 | Laurence Brady (Rep) | Francis Bulfin (CnaG) | Patrick Egan (CnaG) | Seán McGuinness (Rep) | ||||||
| 1926 by-election | James Dwyer (CnaG) | ||||||||||
| 5th | 1927 (Jun) | Patrick Boland (FF) | Thomas Tynan (FF) | John Gill (Lab) | |||||||
| 6th | 1927 (Sep) | Patrick Gorry (FF) | William Aird (CnaG) | ||||||||
| 7th | 1932 | Thomas F. O'Higgins (CnaG) | Eugene O'Brien (CnaG) | ||||||||
| 8th | 1933 | Eamon Donnelly (FF) | Jack Finlay (NCP) | ||||||||
| 9th | 1937 | Patrick Gorry (FF) | Thomas F. O'Higgins (FG) | Jack Finlay (FG) | |||||||
| 10th | 1938 | Daniel Hogan (FF) | |||||||||
| 11th | 1943 | Oliver J. Flanagan (IMR) | |||||||||
| 12th | 1944 | ||||||||||
| 13th | 1948 | Tom O'Higgins, Jnr (FG) | Oliver J. Flanagan (Ind) | ||||||||
| 14th | 1951 | Peadar Maher (FF) | |||||||||
| 15th | 1954 | Nicholas Egan (FF) | Oliver J. Flanagan (FG) | ||||||||
| 1956 by-election | Kieran Egan (FF) | ||||||||||
| 16th | 1957 | ||||||||||
| 17th | 1961 | Patrick Lalor (FF) | |||||||||
| 18th | 1965 | Henry Byrne (Lab) | |||||||||
| 19th | 1969 | Ger Connolly (FF) | Bernard Cowen (FF) | Tom Enright (FG) | |||||||
| 20th | 1973 | Charles McDonald (FG) | |||||||||
| 21st | 1977 | Bernard Cowen (FF) | |||||||||
| 22nd | 1981 | Liam Hyland (FF) | |||||||||
| 23rd | 1982 (Feb) | ||||||||||
| 24th | 1982 (Nov) | ||||||||||
| 1984 by-election | Brian Cowen (FF) | ||||||||||
| 25th | 1987 | Charles Flanagan (FG) | |||||||||
| 26th | 1989 | ||||||||||
| 27th | 1992 | Pat Gallagher (Lab) | |||||||||
| 28th | 1997 | John Moloney (FF) | Seán Fleming (FF) | Tom Enright (FG) | |||||||
| 29th | 2002 | Olwyn Enright (FG) | Tom Parlon (PDs) | ||||||||
| 30th | 2007 | Charles Flanagan (FG) | |||||||||
| 31st | 2011 | Brian Stanley (SF) | Barry Cowen (FF) | Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (FG) | |||||||
| 32nd | 2016 | Constituency abolished. See Laois and Offaly. | |||||||||
| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33rd | 2020 | Brian Stanley (SF) | Carol Nolan (Ind) | Barry Cowen (FF) | Seán Fleming (FF) | Charles Flanagan (FG) | |||||
