Kate Walsh (politician)
Kate Walsh (1 March 1947 – 24 April 2007) was an Irish Progressive Democrats politician and community activist from Celbridge, County Kildare. In 2002 she was nominated by the Taoiseach as a member of Seanad Éireann. 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. She later joined the Progressive Democrats (PDs), and stood unsuccessfully as a PD 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. References

1947 births
2007 deaths
Members of Kildare County Council
Members of the 22nd Seanad
21st-century women members of Seanad Éireann
People from Celbridge
Politicians from County Laois
Politicians from County Kildare
Progressive Democrats senators
20th-century Irish women politicians
Nominated members of Seanad Éireann
Progressive Democrats candidates in Dáil elections
Independent local councillors in the Republic of Ireland
Progressive Democrats local councillors
Women mayors of places in Ireland