Jackie Cahill

Jackie Cahill TD

Teachta Dála
Incumbent
Assumed office February 2016
Constituency	Tipperary
Personal details
Born	County Tipperary, Ireland
Nationality	Irish
Political party	Fianna Fáil
Occupation	Farmer
Website	www.jackiecahill.com

Jackie Cahill is a Fianna Fáil politician, and Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary constituency, elected at the 2016 general election, on his first attempt.

He has been a member of Tipperary County Council since 2014 and is a former president of the ICMSA, a national farmers' union.^[1]

He was selected in May 2015 by Fianna Fáil members to contest the upcoming Irish General Election, defeating 4 other contenders, including Michael Smith, the son of former Defence Minister Mick Smith. Deputy Cahill was also praised for his social media campaign, awarded one of the best in the country.^[2]

References

↑ "Election 2016: Jackie Cahill". RTÉ News. 28 February 2016.
↑ Dwyer, Craig (25 January 2016). "Which #GE16 candidates are winning on social media so far?". Dublin: Newstalk.

Current members of Dáil Éireann

As elected to the 32nd Dáil in 2016 Ceann Comhairle: Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Fine Gael (50)	Bailey Barrett Breen Brophy Bruton Burke C. Byrne Cannon Carey Corcoran Kennedy Coveney Creed J. Daly D'Arcy Deasy Deering R. Doherty Donohoe Doyle Durkan English Farrell Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Flanagan Griffin Harris Heydon Humphreys Kehoe E. Kenny§ Kyne Madigan McEntee McHugh McLoughlin Mitchell O'Connor D. Murphy Eoghan Murphy H. Naughton Neville Noonan O'Connell O'Donovan O'Dowd Phelan Ring Rock Stanton Varadkar

Fianna Fáil (43)	Aylward Brassil Breathnach Browne Butler T. Byrne Cahill Calleary Casey Cassells L. Chambers J. Chambers N. Collins Cowen Curran Dooley Fleming Gallagher Haughey Kelleher Lahart Lawless M. Martin§ McConalogue Michael McGrath McGuinness A. Moynihan M. Moynihan Murphy O'Mahony Eugene Murphy D. O'Brien O'Callaghan Ó Cuív O'Dea O'Keeffe O'Loughlin O'Rourke Rabbitte Scanlon Brendan Smith Smyth Troy

Sinn Féin (23)	Adams§ Brady Buckley Crowe Cullinane P. Doherty Ellis M. Ferris Funchion M. Kenny McDonald Mitchell Munster Nolan J. O'Brien Ó Broin Ó Caoláin Ó Laoghaire O'Reilly Ó Snodaigh Quinlivan Stanley Tóibín

Labour Party (7)	Burton Howlin§ Kelly J. O'Sullivan Penrose B. Ryan Sherlock

AAA–PBP (6)	Barry Boyd Barrett Coppinger G. Kenny P. Murphy Bríd Smith

Independents 4 Change (4)	Broughan J. Collins C. Daly Wallace

Green Party (2)	C. Martin E. Ryan§

Social Democrats (2)	C. Murphy§ Shortall§

Workers and Unemployed Action (1)	Healy§

Independent (19)	Canney^† M. Collins Connolly Donnelly Fitzmaurice^† Grealish Halligan^† Harty D. Healy-Rae M. Healy-Rae Lowry F. McGrath^† Mattie McGrath Moran^† D. Naughten M. O'Sullivan Pringle Ross^† Zappone

§Party leaders Italics = Ministers ^†Ind. Alliance

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