Keith Swanick

Senator Keith Swanick

Senator
Incumbent
Assumed office April 2016
Constituency	Cultural and Educational Panel
Personal details
Born	Castlerea, Roscommon, Ireland
Nationality	Irish
Political party	Fianna Fáil

Keith Swanick is a Fianna Fáil Senator.^[1] He was elected for the Cultural and Educational Panel at the 2016 Irish Seanad Election.

Originally from Castlerea in County Roscommon, Swanick and his wife run a GP Practice in Belmullet on the Erris Peninsula. He is also the Secretary of the National Association of Irish General Practitioners.^[2]

He was chosen as a candidate for Fianna Fáil in a Seanad by-election after the retirement of Jimmy Harte which was won by Labour's Mairia Cahill.^[3] He initially considered contesting the 2016 general election in the Roscommon-Galway constituency but declined.^[4]

References

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Cathaoirleach Leader of the Seanad

Administrative Panel	Martin Conway (FG) Mark Daly (FF) John Dolan (Ind) Maura Hopkins (FG) Kevin Humphreys (Lab) Niall Ó Donnghaile (SF) Diarmuid Wilson (FF)

Agricultural Panel	Victor Boyhan (Ind) Paddy Burke (FG) Maria Byrne (FG) Rose Conway-Walsh (SF) Paul Daly (FF) Denis Landy (Lab) Tim Lombard (FG) Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (SF) Brian Ó Domhnaill (FF) Denis O'Donovan (FF) Grace O'Sullivan (GP)

Cultural and Educational Panel	Lorraine Clifford-Lee (FF) Gabrielle McFadden (FG) Kieran O'Donnell (FG) Keith Swanick (FF) Fintan Warfield (SF)

Industrial and Commercial Panel	Catherine Ardagh (FF) Frances Black (Ind) Colm Burke (FG) Paul Coghlan (FG) Aidan Davitt (FF) Gerry Horkan (FF) Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (SF) Catherine Noone (FG) Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Lab)

Labour Panel	Jerry Buttimer (FG) Gerard Craughwell (Ind) Máire Devine (SF) Robbie Gallagher (FF) Paul Gavan (SF) Terry Leyden (FF) Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (FF) Ged Nash (Lab) Joe O'Reilly (FG) Ned O'Sullivan (FF) Neale Richmond (FG)

National University of Ireland	Alice Mary Higgins (Ind) Michael McDowell (Ind) Rónán Mullen (Ind)

University of Dublin	Ivana Bacik (Lab) David Norris (Ind) Lynn Ruane (Ind)

Nominated by the Taoiseach	Ray Butler (FG) Paudie Coffey (FG) Frank Feighan (FG) Joan Freeman (Ind) Colette Kelleher (Ind) Billy Lawless (Ind) Michelle Mulherin (FG) Pádraig Ó Céidigh (Ind) Marie-Louise O'Donnell (Ind) John O'Mahony (FG) James Reilly (FG)

FF: Fianna Fáil FG: Fine Gael GP: Green Party SF: Sinn Féin Lab: Labour Party Ind: Independent

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