Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (born 1953) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician. He has been a TD for Cavan Monaghan since 1997 and is currently the Parliamentary Leader of Sinn Féin in Dáil Éireann. 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... -1... A TD or Teachta Dála (Irish for Dáil Deputy, pronounced chock-ta dawla) is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower chamber of the Irish Oireachtas (pronounced orr-och-tas) or National Parliament. ... Cavan-Monaghan is a constituency used in elections to Dáil Éireann, the lower house of parliament in the Republic of Ireland. ... Dáil Éireann is the lower house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of the Republic of Ireland1. ...

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin was born in Monaghan in 1953. He has been active in Irish Republican circles for a number of years. He was Director of Elections in the H-Block campaign of 1981 when Kieran Doherty was elected TD for the Cavan Monaghan constituency. Between 1982 and 1985 he was General Manager of the republican newspaper An Phoblacht. Ó Caoláin's first political success came in 1985 when he was elected to Monaghan County Council as a Sinn Féin councillor. Monaghan (Muineachán in Irish) is a town in the Republic of Ireland, the administrative capital of County Monaghan. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... A TD or Teachta Dála (Irish for Dáil Deputy, pronounced chock-ta dawla) is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower chamber of the Irish Oireachtas (pronounced orr-och-tas) or National Parliament. ... Cavan-Monaghan is a constituency used in elections to Dáil Éireann, the lower house of parliament in the Republic of Ireland. ... 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January-February January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... -1...

Ó Caoláin represented Sinn Féin at the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation in Dublin in the mid-nineties and was also a member of the Sinn Féin negotiations team during the talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. In 1997 he was elected to Dáil Éireann for the first time as a TD for Cavan Monaghan, becoming the first modern Sinn Féin Teachta Dála. He was subsequently re-elected in 2002. At the last general election he was joined by four other Sinn Féin deputies. Ó Caoláin is currently Sinn Féin's Parliamentary Group Leader in the Dáil and is also spokesperson on the Peace Process and the Six Counties (i.e Northern Ireland). He is also has party spokesperson for Finance and Health & Children. Dublins Hapenny Bridge. ... The Belfast Agreement (also known as the Good Friday Agreement and, more rarely, as the Stormont Agreement) was signed in Belfast on April 10, 1998 by the British and Irish Governments and endorsed by most Northern Ireland political parties. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. ... Dáil Éireann is the lower house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of the Republic of Ireland1. ... A TD or Teachta Dála (Irish for Dáil Deputy, pronounced chock-ta dawla) is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower chamber of the Irish Oireachtas (pronounced orr-och-tas) or National Parliament. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Northern Ireland is an administrative region and one of four parts of the United Kingdom. ... The Irish Minister for Finance is the second most important ministerial position in the Irish Cabinet after that of the Taoiseach. ... The Minister for Health & Children has overall constitutional and political responsibility for the Department of Health & Children, while his or her duties include the creation and assessment of policy for the health services. ...