Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Infobox Politician
name=Aengus Ó Snodaigh
honorific-suffix = TD


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term_start=17 May 2002
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birth_date=birth date and age|1964|7|31|df=y
birth_place=Dublin City
constituency=Dublin South Central
party=Sinn Féin
office=Sinn Fein Chief Whip in Dáil Éireann
spouse=
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Aengus Ó Snodaigh (born 31 July 1964) is a politician in the Ireland. He was re-elected in May 2007 for the second time to the Dáil. A Dubliner and Irish language speaker, he attended school at Scoil Lorcáin and Coláiste Eoin, before studying at University College Dublin (UCD). He is a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála for Dublin South Central and was first elected at the 2002 general election. He is currently the Sinn Féin Chief Whip in Leinster House and is spokesperson on Housing, Justice, Equality and International Affairs. He was previously the Sinn Féin representative on the National Forum on Europe and the party's spokesperson on the Nice Treaty. He was a member of the Dáil Committee on Procedures and Privileges and the Committee on European Affairs in the 29th Dáil.

Ó Snodaigh joined Sinn Féin while at university UCD, where he was active in student politics, in 1983. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in History and Geography, and a Higher Diploma in Education. Having secured his teaching degree, he went on to teach at secondary level and as a literacy teacher in Dublin's inner city. He is also the editor of "Fealsúnacht, Feall agus Fuil" which is a collection of historical essays concentrating on the 1798 Rebellion and several pamphlets on aspects of Irish republican history. He is a member of the board of the Ireland Institute, aimed at promoting discussion on Irish republicanism, culture and heritage which restored the Pearse brothers birthplace and original family home at 27 Pearse Street, Dublin, and joint editor of the Institute's journal, "The Republic".

A Sinn Féin and community campaigner was first elected to Dáil in 2002, having contested a Dáil election in 1987 first and a by-election in the Dublin South-Central constituency in 1999. He has been a member of the Sinn Féin national executive, the Ard Chomhairle, for many years, and has been on the Dublin executive of the party since 1985 and was part of the party's negotiations team during the unfolding peace process.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh is the brother of the three Ó Snodaigh brothers in the band Kíla and is the son of the writer and publisher Pádraig Ó Snodaigh. He is married and living in Ballyfermot.


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