Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Seán Gallagher" in English language version.
After school, he attended the local agricultural college. His first job was working with the college and he had a small farm for a while. Then in 1983, he was in a car accident which took him on a bit of a detour. He went back to college in Maynooth University, trained as a youth worker and spent the next several years in the public sector.
Transcrpit of sections of Seán Gallagher's interaction with Glena Lynch, and Martin McGuinness, on The Frontline debate, 24 October 2011
Transcrpit of Seán Gallagher interview on the Pat Kenny radio show
The company's chairperson, Seán Gallagher, said: "I am honoured and delighted to have been appointed as Chairman of the company in 2010 at a key juncture in the port's future development.
He was appointed to the board of North-South body Intertrade Ireland at the end of 2007 -- and annual accounts for that year reveal they gave €41,970 to his Smart Homes company. [..] But it also emerged that he managed to miss half of all Intertrade Ireland board meetings over the past two-and-a-half years -- despite getting €30,000 in fees.
He said he was also happy to clarify the timeline and when exactly he did leave Fianna Fáil. "I did attend two meetings of the party's executive in July and December 2009. I stepped down then as a member of the Ravensdale Cumann in Co Louth on March 1, 2010," he said. "I then signaled verbally in September 2010 that I was stepping down as a member of the executive and I formally put that in writing in order to allow the executive to replace me and that happened on January 5, 2011."
But I bring him back to the major social issues, issues from which he has nothing to gain personally by working on. One by one, we go through marriage equality, the Repeal campaign, opposition to Irish Water and the homelessness crisis. Did he actively campaign on any of these? One by one he concedes, "No, I didn't actively campaign....I can't campaign on every issue." He says he cannot reveal how much he won from RTE because the damages are bound by a confidentiality agreement. Asked what he did with the money he says: "The money is there for my kids' education.
Board Member: SEAN GALLAGHER
Those filings show it had almost $2.42m (€1.97m) in assets at the end of October, mainly accounting for the value of its patents. In the quarter, its costs and administrative expenses contributed to a net loss of $107,732. For the full nine months, it posted a net loss of $263,311. Mr Sheridan said a small start-up loan to South Dublin County Council had all but been paid back.
Former presidential candidate works a journalist and motivational speaker
His seat was considered to be among those most at risk in the 2007 general election with the entry of Fine Gael MEP Mairead McGuinness into the field. Kirk adopted a far stronger republican tone during the campaign. In the event, he topped the poll ahead of his Fianna Fáil colleague, then minister for justice Dermot Ahern.
Asked by Miriam O'Callaghan on the Prime Time debate if he felt Fianna Fáil had let the country down, Mr Gallagher said that he could not answer for Fianna Fáil, but today he moved to counter suggestions that he had been equivocal on the issue. [...] "I was asked to condemn Fianna Fáil, and the first thing that came into my mind was the thousands of ordinary decent men and women who are the grassroots of Fianna Fáil . . . and I didn't want to condemn them because they weren't in government, they weren't in Cabinet.
It reopened the matter and allowed McGuinness to stoke up the earlier attack. This time Gallagher referred directly to the man, disparaging him. In so doing he also made comments that had very unfortunate overtones for a man denying Fianna Fáil connections – including "no recollection" and "if he gave me an envelope". Those phrases recalled excuses of disgraced Fianna Fáil politicians
Mr Gallagher [...] was born in 17, Devin Reilly Terrace, Monaghan on 7th July 1962. The Gallagher family lived at Devin Reilly Terrace for a number of years before moving to Ballyhaise in County Cavan.
Monaghan Town-born entrepreneur Seán Gallagher secured the four local authority nominations he needed to contest the October 26 poll to decide the next President of Ireland
The Dragons' Den investor said he did not have any connection with the party between 1993 – when he finished working as a political secretary for then-Health minister and Cavan-Monaghan TD Rory O'Hanlon – and 2007 when he acted as a campaign manager for Louth's Séamus Kirk.
Prior to becoming an entrepreneur himself, Seán was assistant CEO with the County Enterprise Boards
