Feargal Quinn
Feargal Quinn was born on November 27th, 1936. He is an independent member of the Seanad Éireann. He has also been active as a businessman and a television personality.
Political Career[edit]
Quinn won his first term as a senator in 1993 from the National University of Ireland constituency. He was then re-elected in 1997, 2002, 2007 and 2011. He is a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Affairs, the Joint Committee on Finance and Public Service and is an Oireachtas member of the National Economic and Social Forum.
Education[edit]
Feargal Quinn was was educated in Newbridge College, and is a commerce graduate of University College Dublin. He also received three honorary doctorates from Irish education institutions (NCEA, National University of Ireland and the University of Dublin).
Notable Works[edit]
Beside his career in politics, Feargal Quinn was also active in business and public service. He is the founder of the Superquinn supermarket chain, of which he remains a non-executive president, after his family sold out their interest in August 2005. He was also chairman of the Interim Board for Posts and served as chairman of its successor An Post until 1989. From 1993 to 1998, he chaired the steering committee which oversaw the development of the Leaving Certificate Applied version. He currently chairs the IBEC-sponsored business committee on better regulation, Sensible Rules. In 2006 he was appointed an Adjunct Professor in Marketing at National University of Ireland, Galway.
He served as president of EuroCommerce in 2006.
Feargal Quinn has also worked on TV. In 2009, he cooperated with the creators of the six-part television series, Feargal Quinn's Retail Therapy. A second series aired in 2011 while a third series aired in 2012. In 2011, he fronted RTÉ's Local Heroes campaign in Drogheda, County Louth with an assembled team of experts with the aim of kick-starting the local economy. It aired as RTÉ 1's six-part television series "Local Heroes".
