Education
University College Dublin.
University College Dublin.
He was elected as a Teachta Dála (Territorial Decoration) for the Dublin South–Central constituency at the 2011 general election. Conaghan is originally from County Donegal. Conaghan is a teacher by profession and was vice-principal of Inchicore College of Further Education.
When the party merged with Labour in 1991 he was elected to Dublin City Council representing the Ballyfermot local electoral area.
He was Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2004 to 2005. He did not contest the 2016 general election.
Originally a member of Jim Kemmy"s Democratic Socialist Party he contested a number of elections for them in the 1980s.
