Researching John Curran

Following his re-election in 2016, he chaired the all-party Oireachtas Housing and Homelessness Committee. This Committee launched their final report on 17 June 2016.

Curran was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2002 general election when the constituency was first created. He was re-elected on the first count at the 2007 general election. He was elected to South Dublin County Council at the 1999 local elections representing the Clondalkin–Newcastle local electoral area.

On 13 May 2008, shortly after Brian Cowen became Taoiseach, he was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs with special responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy and Community Affairs.

On 23 March 2010, following a cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach with special responsibility as Government Chief Whip and at the Department of Defence.

He lost his seat at the 2011 general election, but regained it in the 2016 general election. He then chaired the All-Party Oireachtas Social Protection Committee. He lost his seat again at the 2020 general election.

Curran was born in the Bronx, New York, on November 21, 1953, to John Francis and Catherine Curran. His father worked for Kraft Foods as a marketing executive. Curran was raised in White Plains, New York. He attended Catholic schools and received a bachelor's degree in languages and literature from Bard College in 1975.

Curran joined the staff of Fortune magazine as a journalist in 1978. He focused on Wall Street, banking, business and international economics. He received the Overseas Press Club award in 1988 for his reports on Japan.

He left Fortune in 1998 to become the editor of the now defunct Mutual Fund magazine. He was the recipient of the Time Inc. Luce Award in 2001 for commissioning a story on international terrorism, which was published six months before the September 11th terrorist attacks. Mutual Fund, a Time Inc. publication, was closed in 2003.

He joined Bloomberg News in 2010 as a senior journalist for Bloomberg Markets magazine. Curran then became the news director at Bloomberg.com.

Curran died at home in Weston, Connecticut, on July 5, 2013, following a 14-month battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, at the age of 59. He was survived by his wife, Joan, and their four children, Alissa, Alexandra, Joanna, and John Richard.

John Curran was named Vermont news leader for the Associated Press in 2006 after reporting for 12 years in Atlantic City, N.J.

John Curran was the son of longtime Buffalo News columnist Bob Curran. He graduated from St. Bonaventure University in Olean, N.Y., with a degree in journalism. He worked for the Niagara Gazette and joined the Associated Press in Charleston in 1989, and transferred to Boston in 1993.

In 1994 he was sent to Atlantic City to cover crime, politics, the Miss America pageant and Donald Trump's casinos.

Curran was born in New York City and grew up near Buffalo. In 1975, he graduated from high school in Amherst, N.Y. and went to the United States Military Academy Preparatory School at Fort Monmouth, N.J. Though he had intended to play college basketball at West Point, he changed plans and served as an enlisted man after being injured in a motorcycle accident. He began his career as a journalist writing for Army newspapers.

Curran died on September 17, 2011 when he was stricken apparently with a heart attack while mowing the lawn at his home in Montpelier, VT. He was 54.