Kathy Sinnott

Kathy Sinnott (2007)

Kathy Sinnott (born September 29, 1950 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an Irish politician and was a non-party member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009 .

Sinnott studied at St. Mary of the Woods College in Indiana and then at University College Dublin in Ireland.

In May 2002, she ran unsuccessfully as a non-party in the elections for the 29th Dáil Éireann . For this she was elected to the European Parliament in June 2004 . As a member of the European Parliament, she belonged to the Independence and Democracy Group and was active within it as a board member. From May 2008 to October of the same year she was briefly co-group chairman, but was then replaced by Hanne Dahl . In the European elections in 2009 , she was unable to defend her seat and left the European Parliament.

2005 she was awarded the St. Mary of the Woods College , the honorary doctorate . Sinnott is the mother of nine children, three daughters and six sons. In September 2009, one of her sons drowned swimming in Georgia . He was a student at Southern Catholic College in Dawsonville .

Web links

• Official website: www.kathysinnott.ie
• Entry for Kathy Sinnott in the database of Members of the European Parliament
• VoteWatch.eu : Kathy Sinnott's voting behavior in the European Parliament (in English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://indemgroup.eu/it/32/browse/7/news/462/?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=39&cHash=2a7eb65c94  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective . Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ http://indemgroup.eu/it/32/browse/1/news/529/?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=27&cHash=94320c1b73  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective . Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0924/1224255128289.html