Kate Walsh (1 March 1947 – 24 April 2007) was an Irish Progressive Democrats politician and community activist from Celbridge, County Kildare.
In 2002 she was nominated by the Taoiseach as a member of Seanad Éireann.
[1] Walsh was elected to Kildare County Council at the 1999 local elections, when she stood as an independent and won over one-and-a-half quotas on the first count.
She later joined the Progressive Democrats (PDs), and stood unsuccessfully as a PD candidate for Dáil Éireann in the Kildare North at the 2002 general election.
[citation needed] She died on 24 April 2007 from complications related to diabetes, after a long illness.