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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Conor McGahon (born 30 July 1965) is a Regulatory Lawyer and retired Fine Gael member of both Louth County Council and Dundalk Urban District Council. He headed the poll in his ward when elected to the seat vacated by his father Brendan McGahon, a controversial Teachta Dála (TD) for the constituency of Louth from 1982 until 2002 and became the youngest local politician in the Republic of Ireland when first elected in 1991 and the fifth consecutive member of his family to sit on the County Council.McGahon was born in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland and was educated at the Marist College in Dundalk. He attended NUI Galway (then UCG) where he became Auditor of the Law Society and graduated in 1986 with a BA in Legal & Political Science and again in 1988 with an LLB. He subsequently became a Solicitor and Law lecturer at the Dundalk Institute of Technology (then Dundalk RTC). He sat as a member of the inaugural Border Regional Authority for a period of 2 years. He again ran for public office in 1994, taking a seat on Dundalk UDC from Sinn Féin and was elected Chairman of the Arts Committee for the life of the Council. He was elected in 1997 as the youngest Chairman of Dundalk UDC. He sat along with his uncle Johnny who became the sixth member of the McGahon family to sit on the Town Council (previously the Board of Guardians) since 1898.Though he did not express public support for his colourful father’s socially conservative views, he was once heavily criticised for adopting a similar stance on security, in his support of the Peace movement in Northern Ireland during a highly controversial debate in the Council Chamber. He held the position of Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the UDC before leaving law practice and retiring from public life in 1999.He was recruited as legal advisor to the late Lord Ballyedmond of Mourne, Chairman and founder of veterinary pharmaceutical company Norbrook Laboratories Ltd (formerly known as Senator Edward Haughey), a Taoiseach’s appointee to Seanad Éireann, who uniquely served 2 terms of office in the Irish Upper House of Parliament before sitting initially as a Unionist then Conservative peer in the UK's House of Lords. Haughey died in a helicopter crash in Norfolk in March 2014.Known to be the first Lay Custody Visitor with Northern Ireland's Policing Authority to come from the Republic of Ireland, McGahon went on to become a Monitor for the Parade Commission for Northern Ireland during the Province's annual marching season. He acted as a Commission Observer in the first Belfast Gay Pride march which was legally supervised by the Commission in a new initiative to prevent violence and instances of hate crime.McGahon later worked for International Consulting firm Wolters Kluwer as a Tribunal Advocate specialising in Discrimination Law. He went on to establish a consulting practice in Employment Law in Belfast with an office in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.A vegetarian and practising Buddhist of the SotoZen tradition, McGahon entered a Civil Partnership in Northern Ireland and has become known as an advocate of equality issues. He currently lives in Spain, on the Straits of Gibraltar. In 2012, McGahon undertook an LLM in Corporate Governance at the School of Law in Queen's University, Belfast and works in Financial services.. }

• Conor_McGahon abstract "Conor McGahon (born 30 July 1965) is a Regulatory Lawyer and retired Fine Gael member of both Louth County Council and Dundalk Urban District Council. He headed the poll in his ward when elected to the seat vacated by his father Brendan McGahon, a controversial Teachta Dála (TD) for the constituency of Louth from 1982 until 2002 and became the youngest local politician in the Republic of Ireland when first elected in 1991 and the fifth consecutive member of his family to sit on the County Council.McGahon was born in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland and was educated at the Marist College in Dundalk. He attended NUI Galway (then UCG) where he became Auditor of the Law Society and graduated in 1986 with a BA in Legal & Political Science and again in 1988 with an LLB. He subsequently became a Solicitor and Law lecturer at the Dundalk Institute of Technology (then Dundalk RTC). He sat as a member of the inaugural Border Regional Authority for a period of 2 years. He again ran for public office in 1994, taking a seat on Dundalk UDC from Sinn Féin and was elected Chairman of the Arts Committee for the life of the Council. He was elected in 1997 as the youngest Chairman of Dundalk UDC. He sat along with his uncle Johnny who became the sixth member of the McGahon family to sit on the Town Council (previously the Board of Guardians) since 1898.Though he did not express public support for his colourful father’s socially conservative views, he was once heavily criticised for adopting a similar stance on security, in his support of the Peace movement in Northern Ireland during a highly controversial debate in the Council Chamber. He held the position of Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the UDC before leaving law practice and retiring from public life in 1999.He was recruited as legal advisor to the late Lord Ballyedmond of Mourne, Chairman and founder of veterinary pharmaceutical company Norbrook Laboratories Ltd (formerly known as Senator Edward Haughey), a Taoiseach’s appointee to Seanad Éireann, who uniquely served 2 terms of office in the Irish Upper House of Parliament before sitting initially as a Unionist then Conservative peer in the UK's House of Lords. Haughey died in a helicopter crash in Norfolk in March 2014.Known to be the first Lay Custody Visitor with Northern Ireland's Policing Authority to come from the Republic of Ireland, McGahon went on to become a Monitor for the Parade Commission for Northern Ireland during the Province's annual marching season. He acted as a Commission Observer in the first Belfast Gay Pride march which was legally supervised by the Commission in a new initiative to prevent violence and instances of hate crime.McGahon later worked for International Consulting firm Wolters Kluwer as a Tribunal Advocate specialising in Discrimination Law. He went on to establish a consulting practice in Employment Law in Belfast with an office in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.A vegetarian and practising Buddhist of the SotoZen tradition, McGahon entered a Civil Partnership in Northern Ireland and has become known as an advocate of equality issues. He currently lives in Spain, on the Straits of Gibraltar. In 2012, McGahon undertook an LLM in Corporate Governance at the School of Law in Queen's University, Belfast and works in Financial services.".