Daithí Ó Ceallaigh
former Irish diplomat
Daithí Ó Ceallaigh is a former Irish diplomat.
Biography
Ó Ceallaigh is a native of Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin. He is a graduate of University College Dublin. He worked as a secondary teacher, and gave three years voluntary service in Zambia, before joining the diplomatic service in 1973.
He was Ireland's first ambassador to Finland, serving from 1993 to 1997. In 2004, in Dublin, the Finnish ambassador to Ireland, Pekka Oinonen, presented Ó Ceallaigh with the Order of the White Rose of Finland. Ambassador Oinonen remarked in his speech that when Finland was in the process of joining the European Union, Ó Ceallaigh was practically an "advisor" to the Finnish government on the practical issues of E.U. membership.
From 2001 to 2007 he served as ambassador to the United Kingdom.
He was then posted as ambassador to the U.N. at Geneva. In this role, he presided over the diplomatic conference in Croke Park, Dublin, which successfully negotiated the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
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