Tom Gildea
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Tom Gildea
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Thomas Gildea is an Irish former politician who was elected as an independent Teachta Dála (TD) at the 1997 general election. A farmer representing Donegal South-West, he won popular local support for his campaign to legalise 'deflectors' which re-transmitted British television channels in rural areas, but which had been shut down in the wake of legal action by cable and MMDS operators. He supported the Fianna Fáil–Progressive Democrats minority coalition government from 1997 to 2002. In the 199
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Irish non-party politician (b. 1939)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Gildea
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2023-07-22T17:10:44Z
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