Kate Walsh (politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Kate Walsh (politician)
- Kate Walsh (1 March 1947 – 24 April 2007) was an Irish Progressive Democrats politician and community activist from Celbridge, County Kildare.
- In 2002 she was nominated by the Taoiseach as a member of Seanad Éireann.Walsh was elected to Kildare County Council at the 1999 local elections, when she stood as an independent and won over one-and-a-half quotas on the first count.
- She later joined the Progressive Democrats (PDs), and stood unsuccessfully as a PD candidate for Dáil Éireann in the Kildare North at the 2002 general election.
- She was unsuccessful again at the by-election in 2005.
- Walsh was Mayor of Celbridge from 1982 to 2007. She died on 24 April 2007 from complications related to diabetes, after a long illness.
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