Education
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.
Member of the European Parliament politician
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.
She represented the South constituency in Ireland in the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009. She is secretary of the Hope Project, a charity that helps people with disabilities. Sinnott founded the Hope Project in 1996.
In 2001, High Court ruled that every person in Ireland had a constitutional right to free appropriate primary education based on need.
The judgement confirmed that this was a fundamental right which was not limited by the availability of resources. The government did not challenge the High Court decision for children 18 years and younger but successfully appealed its application to persons over 18 years of age to the Supreme Court.
She had stood previously at the 2002 general election for a seat in the Cork South–Central constituency, and narrowly losing the fifth and final seat to John Dennehy of Fianna Fáil. In the election count, she was initially ahead by 3 votes but lost by 6 votes after two recounts.
She required a high court judgement to allow her to run for the seanad on the Labour Panel.
She is a former co-chair of the European Parliament"s Eurosceptic Independence/Democracy group. Sinnott was a member and Vice-President of the EUDemocrats – Alliance for a Europe of Democracies. On 8 June 2009 Sinnott lost her seat in the European Parliament.
She received more than 30% fewer votes than in the 2004 European Parliament election.
He was a final year philosophy student at the Southern Catholic College in Dawsonville, Georgia. As part of the First Families First Sinnot alongside fathers rights campaigner John Waters is campaigning against the 2015 Marriage Referendum on same-sex marriage.
She campaigned on disability and education issues, euroscepticism and social conservatism. She was an unsuccessful candidate at the subsequent Senate election in 2002 she had been nominated by 4 sitting Independent TDs, losing out by 3 votes to a Fine Gael Candidate.
She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the South constituency at the 2004 European Parliament election.