Joe Costello (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Place of Birth: Geevagh, Connacht, Ireland
About Joe Costello (politician)
- Joseph Costello (born 13 July 1945) is an Irish Labour Party politician who served as Minister of State for Trade and Development from 2011 to 2014.
- He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Central constituency from 1992 to 1997 and from 2002 to 2016.
- He was a Senator for the Administrative Panel from 1989 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2002.
- He served as a Councillor on Dublin City Council from 1999 until the end of the dual mandate lead to him passing the seat to his wife Emer Costello.
- He was re-elected to the Council in 2019. Costello was born in Geevagh, County Sligo and was educated at Summerhill College, Sligo, St Patrick's College, Maynooth and University College Dublin.
- He worked as a secondary school teacher before becoming a full-time public representative. He joined the Labour Party in 1985, and in 1989 he was elected to the 19th Seanad Éireann on the Administrative Panel.
- He remained there until the 1992 general election when he was elected to Dáil Éireann.
- Costello lost his seat at the 1997 general election but was subsequently elected to the Seanad again.
- Costello was re-elected to the Dáil at the 2002 and 2007 general elections.His wife Emer Costello is a former MEP for Dublin.
- He was director of elections for Michael D.
- Higgins during the 2011 presidential election.On 20 December 2011, he was appointed as Minister of State for Trade and Development, a position he served in until 15 July 2014.
- He was dropped as a Minister of State in a reshuffle in July 2014.
- He was then appointed to the Dáil Public Accounts Committee. He lost his seat at the 2016 general election.
- Costello made national headlines in 2017 when he said a snap election could breach the Irish Constitution, as constituencies needed to be revised to take account of changes in population in the 2016 Census.
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