Kate Walsh

Career

She later joined the Progressive Democrats (PDs), and stood unsuccessfully as a Privatdozent candidate for Dáil Éireann in the Kildare North at the 2002 general election. She was unsuccessful again at the by-election in 2005. Walsh was Mayor of Celbridge from 1982 to 2007.

She died on 24 April 2007 from complications related to diabetes, after a long illness.

Achievements

• Walsh was elected to Kildare County Council at the 1999 local elections, when she stood as an independent and won over one-and-a-half quotas on the first count.

Membership

In 2002 she was nominated by the Taoiseach as a member of Seanad Éireann.