Paddy O'Callaghan
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Paddy O'Callaghan (born 1934) is a former Irish amateur cycling champion and a onetime
O'Callaghan was born in
At the time one of the NACAI's most prominent members and a national cycling champion was Dublin born Joe Christle who was also an active member of the Irish Republican Army. Under Christle's influence O'Callaghan joined the Irish republican movement however he remained a member when Christle was dismissed from the movement in the mid-1950s for taking unofficial action against British forces in Northern Ireland.
Paddy O'Callaghan became a member of the
He was also very active in local community development issues in the South Kerry area and was a founding member of both Killorglin Credit Union and Kerry Mountain Rescue.
In the 1967 local elections O'Callaghan was elected for Sinn Féin in the Killorglin ward.
In the early 1970s O'Callaghan was elected to Kerry County Council representing Official Sinn Féin. He also contested a number of general elections in the Kerry South constituency and was a substitute candidate under the list system for the party in a number of elections to the European Parliament.
For many years he also operated a bicycle sale and hire shop in Killarney.
O'Callaghan remains active as an adjudicator and commentator in cycling and as a member South Kerry Development Partnership and several other initiatives.
References
- ^ "Cheney and Keano: the terrible tourist twins". Independent. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
- ^ "Killorglin Cycling Club |".