Kathy Sinnott (née Kelly; born 29 September 1950) is an American-Irish disability rights activist and politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South constituency from 2004 to 2009.

In 2000, she took a court case to force the Government of Ireland to provide a primary school education for her son Jamie who has multiple disabilities.

In 2001, the High Court ruled that every person in Ireland had a constitutional right to free appropriate primary education based on need.

She was featured in a German TV exposé where MEPs were filmed signing up at 7am for their daily attendance allowance prior to then leaving parliament for the day, in 2008.

[10] He was a final year philosophy student at the Southern Catholic College in Dawsonville, Georgia.