Sorca Clarke | |
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![]() Clarke in 2022 | |
Teachta Dála | |
Assumed office February 2020 | |
Constituency | Longford–Westmeath |
Personal details | |
Born | 1978 or 1979 (age 45–46)
[1] Dublin, Ireland |
Political party | Sinn Féin |
Spouse | Darren Caulfield |
Children | 4 |
Sorca Clarke (born 1978/1979) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Longford–Westmeath constituency since the 2020 general election. [2] She was elected on the first count and is the first Sinn Féin TD to serve the constituency since Ruairí Ó Brádaigh in 1957. [3]
Clarke joined Sinn Féin in 2004 [4] and first ran for office in 2009 when she unsuccessfully stood in the 2009 Irish local elections for Mullingar West in County Westmeath. [5] She succeeded in her next attempt and became a member of Westmeath County Council at the 2014 local elections. [5] She lost her seat on the council in the 2019 elections, placing just 9th out of 14 candidates, but became a Teachta Dála in 2020 as part of Sinn Féin's surge that year, topping the poll in her constituency. [6]
Clarke is from Artane, Dublin. She moved to Mullingar with her husband, Darren Caulfield, in 2005 where they run a security business together [4] [7] They have four children, including one with autism.
Clarke's grandfather was a member of the Irish Republican Army and was interned in the Curragh Camp for membership of a proscribed organisation. In his later years, he joined Sinn Féin the Workers' Party following the 1969 split. [4]
Sorca Clarke | |
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![]() Clarke in 2022 | |
Teachta Dála | |
Assumed office February 2020 | |
Constituency | Longford–Westmeath |
Personal details | |
Born | 1978 or 1979 (age 45–46)
[1] Dublin, Ireland |
Political party | Sinn Féin |
Spouse | Darren Caulfield |
Children | 4 |
Sorca Clarke (born 1978/1979) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Longford–Westmeath constituency since the 2020 general election. [2] She was elected on the first count and is the first Sinn Féin TD to serve the constituency since Ruairí Ó Brádaigh in 1957. [3]
Clarke joined Sinn Féin in 2004 [4] and first ran for office in 2009 when she unsuccessfully stood in the 2009 Irish local elections for Mullingar West in County Westmeath. [5] She succeeded in her next attempt and became a member of Westmeath County Council at the 2014 local elections. [5] She lost her seat on the council in the 2019 elections, placing just 9th out of 14 candidates, but became a Teachta Dála in 2020 as part of Sinn Féin's surge that year, topping the poll in her constituency. [6]
Clarke is from Artane, Dublin. She moved to Mullingar with her husband, Darren Caulfield, in 2005 where they run a security business together [4] [7] They have four children, including one with autism.
Clarke's grandfather was a member of the Irish Republican Army and was interned in the Curragh Camp for membership of a proscribed organisation. In his later years, he joined Sinn Féin the Workers' Party following the 1969 split. [4]