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Place of Birth: Cork, Munster, Ireland
About Colm Burke
- Colm Burke (born 17 January 1957) is an Irish Fine Gael politician and member of Seanad Éireann.He was a member of the European Parliament for the South constituency in Ireland between 2007 and 2009.
- He was appointed in June 2007 following the re-election of the outgoing MEP Simon Coveney to Dáil Éireann.
- Following the abolition of the dual mandate, Coveney opted to remain in national politics and resigned from the European Parliament.
- Burke subsequently sat as a Fine Gael and European People's Party MEP.
- He served on various European Parliament committees including Committee on Foreign Affairs, Internal Market & Consumer Protection (Substitute), Committee on Fisheries (Substitute Member) and Subcommittee on Human Rights (Substitute Member).
- Burke lost his seat at the 2009 European Parliament election, with Fine Gael party colleague Seán Kelly taking a seat instead.Burke was a member of Cork City Council from 1999 to 2007 and served as Lord Mayor of Cork in the 2003 to 2004 term.
- He was elected to Seanad Éireann in April 2011 and re-elected in 2016.
- He is the Fine Gael Seanad spokesperson on Health.
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