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THE Clare Labour Party will this Friday host a special event in Ennis to remember the life of Clare politician Patrick Hogan. Guest speakers at the seminar, which will be held in the Old Ground Hotel at 7.30pm, will include Labour Party Leader Ivana Bacik TD, SIPTU General Secretary Joe Cunningham, TSSA Union’s Manuel Cortes TSSA Union, and historian Francis Devine among others. Clare Labour Party chairman Denis Vaughan described Patrick Hogan as “one of the most influential Irish political figures in the twentieth century”. Hogan became the first Labour TD elected in Clare, subsequently becoming a senator and eventually the longest serving Ceann Comhairle, most famously presiding over American President John F Kennedy’s address to the Oireachtas in June 1963. He was born on 10 October 1885, the only son of Patrick Hogan, a labourer, and Bridget O’Connor of Culleen, Kilmaley. In the 1901 Census, he was listed as a House-to-House Postman. By 1911, living in Mitchelstown, Hogan was entered as …
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