Facts: - successor: maurice cummins mary o'rourke - party: fianna fail - spouse: anne geraghty - predecessor: mary o'rourke maurice manning - office: senator leader of the seanad teachta dala - term end: april 2011 may 2002 2011 2002 may 2007 - constituency: labour panel westmeath - term start: july 2007 may 1982 2007 1997 may 2002 - birth date: 15 september 1945 - name: donie cassidy - children: 4 - nationality: irish - birth place: castlepollard , county westmeath , ireland Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of donie cassidy .
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daniel '' donie '' cassidy -lrb- born 15 september 1945 -rrb- is an irish businessman and a former fianna fail politician .he was a teachta dala -lrb- td -rrb- for the westmeath constituency from 2002 to 2007 .from 1982 to 2002 and from 2007 to 2011 , he served as a member of seanad Eireann .