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Seán Canney

Politician

Seán Canney is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Seán Canney				[sources]
Alias	Canney, Seán				[sources]
Birth date	1960-04-06				[sources]
Place of birth	Belclare				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Ireland				[sources]
Country	Ireland				[sources]
Citizenship	Ireland				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Seán				[sources]
Last name	Canney				[sources]
Political association	Independent politician				[sources]
Website	www.seancanney.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q16727814				[sources]
Position	Dáil Éireann (member, 2016-) · Minister of State at the Department of Transport (2025-) · Teachta Dála (2016-2020) · Teachta Dála (2020-2024) · Teachta Dála (2024-) · 1 more...				[sources]
Education	Institute of Technology, Sligo				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Irish politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

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Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,647

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,936

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata343,483

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,358

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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