Donegal North East - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
Donegal County Councillor and Buncrana Town Councillor, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn is the Sinn Féin representative in Donegal North East. In the 2002 General Election he received 3611 votes in the constituency. In the 2004 Local Elections, he topped the poll in the Inishowen Electoral Area of Donegal County Council with 2264 votes. He also was elected to Buncrana Town Council with 406 votes.
Incensed by the high levels of unemployment in his native county, he acted as the Donegal spokesperson for the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed (INOU) from 1997 to 2001. He also served on the INOU National Executive from 1997 until 2000 as well as representing the organisation on the National Rural Development Forum.
Locally he was a community director on the Inishowen Partnership Board for 5 years from 1996 to 2001.
He has spoken at a number of major European conferences in Vienna, Cologne, Helsinki and Barcelona on the issues of unemployment, regional neglect and rural poverty. Pádraig has a diploma in Social Studies.
