Ann Phelan

Irish former politician (born 1961)

2014–2016Agriculture, Food and the Marine

2014–2016Transport, Tourism and Sport

Born (1961-09-16) 16 September 1961 (age 64)

Graiguenamanagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ann Phelan
Phelan in 2013

Minister of State
2014–2016	Agriculture, Food and the Marine
2014–2016	Transport, Tourism and Sport
Teachta Dála
In office February 2011 – February 2016
Constituency	Carlow–Kilkenny

Personal details
Born	(1961-09-16) 16 September 1961 (age 64) Graiguenamanagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland
Party	Labour Party
Spouse	Kieran Phelan
Children	3
Alma mater	Waterford Institute of Technology

Ann Phelan (born 16 September 1961) is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Minister of State from 2014 to 2016. She served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Carlow–Kilkenny from 2011 to 2016.^[1]

Phelan was elected to Kilkenny County Council in 2004 and 2009 for the Thomastown local electoral area.

Phelan was first elected as a Labour Party TD for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency at the 2011 general election.^[2]

On 15 July 2014, she was appointed by the Fine Gael–Labour coalition government as Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport with special responsibility for rural economic development and rural transport.^[3]^[4] Her responsibilities included the implementation of the 2014 report by the Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas (CEDRA).

Before the 2016 general election she participated in a live radio debate on KCLR 96FM. While there she got into an argument, saying: "I am just going to give up here now. I came to this debate here tonight, I came in here, I've been completely ignored and I'll tell you now I'm fed up of the whole bloody lot of ye." Then she walked out of the studio. She admitted later that she had "absolutely" lost her temper.^[5]

She lost her seat at the 2016 general election.^[2]

References

↑ "Ann Phelan". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 8 November 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
1 2 "Ann Phelan". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 1 March 2011. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
↑ "Simon Harris among new Ministers of State". RTÉ News. 15 July 2014. Archived from the original on 20 July 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
↑ "Appointment of Ministers of State" (PDF). Iris Oifigiúil. 2014 (62): 1172–1173. 5 August 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 November 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
↑ "Ann Phelan: I 'absolutely' lost my temper". RTÉ.ie. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2016.

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Carlow–Kilkenny

This table is transcluded from Carlow–Kilkenny (Dáil constituency). (edit | history)

Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)					Deputy (Party)
2nd	1921		Edward Aylward (SF)	W. T. Cosgrave (SF)	James Lennon (SF)	Gearóid O'Sullivan (SF)	4 seats 1921–1923
3rd	1922		Patrick Gaffney (Lab)	W. T. Cosgrave (PT-SF)	Denis Gorey (FP)	Gearóid O'Sullivan (PT-SF)	4 seats 1921–1923
4th	1923		Edward Doyle (Lab)	W. T. Cosgrave (CnaG)		Michael Shelly (Rep)		Seán Gibbons (CnaG)
4th	1925 by-election					Michael Shelly (Rep)		Thomas Bolger (CnaG)
5th	1927 (Jun)				Denis Gorey (CnaG)	Thomas Derrig (FF)		Richard Holohan (FP)
6th	1927 (Sep)				Peter de Loughry (CnaG)
6th	1927 by-election			Denis Gorey (CnaG)	Peter de Loughry (CnaG)
7th	1932		Francis Humphreys (FF)	Denis Gorey (CnaG)	Desmond FitzGerald (CnaG)			Seán Gibbons (FF)
8th	1933		James Pattison (Lab)	Richard Holohan (NCP)	Desmond FitzGerald (CnaG)			Seán Gibbons (FF)
9th	1937	Constituency abolished. See Kilkenny and Carlow–Kildare

Dáil	Election
13th	1948	James Pattison (NLP)	Thomas Walsh (FF)	Thomas Derrig (FF)	Joseph Hughes (FG)	Patrick Crotty (FG)
14th	1951	Francis Humphreys (FF)
15th	1954	James Pattison (Lab)
15th	1956 by-election	James Pattison (Lab)	Martin Medlar (FF)
16th	1957	Francis Humphreys (FF)		Jim Gibbons (FF)
16th	1960 by-election	Patrick Teehan (FF)
17th	1961	Séamus Pattison (Lab)			Desmond Governey (FG)
18th	1965		Tom Nolan (FF)
19th	1969					Kieran Crotty (FG)
20th	1973
21st	1977				Liam Aylward (FF)
22nd	1981			Desmond Governey (FG)
23rd	1982 (Feb)		Jim Gibbons (FF)	Desmond Governey (FG)
24th	1982 (Nov)		M. J. Nolan (FF)	Dick Dowling (FG)
25th	1987			Martin Gibbons (PDs)
26th	1989			Phil Hogan (FG)		John Browne (FG)
27th	1992
28th	1997		John McGuinness (FF)
29th	2002					M. J. Nolan (FF)
30th	2007	Mary White (GP)			Bobby Aylward (FF)	M. J. Nolan (FF)
31st	2011	Ann Phelan (Lab)			John Paul Phelan (FG)	Pat Deering (FG)
31st	2015 by-election	Ann Phelan (Lab)		Bobby Aylward (FF)
32nd	2016	Kathleen Funchion (SF)		Bobby Aylward (FF)
33rd	2020	Kathleen Funchion (SF)		Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (FF)		Malcolm Noonan (GP)
34th	2024	Natasha Newsome Drennan (SF)			Catherine Callaghan (FG)	Peter "Chap" Cleere (FF)

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