Timmy Dooley
Timmy Dooley is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála for the Clare constituency from 2007 to 2020 and a Senator for the Administrative Panel from 2002 to 2007. He was appointed to the Seanad in June 2020.
Dooley was educated at Mountshannon National School and Scarriff Community College, and later at University College Dublin, where he was chairman of the Kevin Barry Cumann of Ógra Fianna Fáil in 1989. He is married to Emer McMahon and they have one daughter.
Dooley was first elected to the Dáil at the 2007 general election for the Clare constituency, after topping the poll with 10,791 votes.
He served as Opposition Spokesperson for Transport, Tourism and Sport from 2011 to 2016, and as Opposition Spokesperson for Communications, Climate Action and Environment from May 2016 to February 2020.
In January 2018, Dooley voiced his support for repealing the Eighth Amendment.
In 2019, he was involved in the Dáil voting scandal.
He lost his seat at the general election in February 2020. He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 2020 Seanad election.
