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The Labour Party (Irish: Páirtí an Lucht Oibre, lit. ' Party of the Working People ') is a centre-left [2] [3] [4] and social democratic [5] [6] political party in the Republic of Ireland. [7] Founded on 28 May 1912 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, by James Connolly, James Larkin, and William O'Brien as the political wing of the Irish Trades ...
The Labour Party, now led by Thomas Johnson, as successor to such organisations as D.D. Sheehan's (independent labour MPs) Irish Land and Labour Association (ILLA), found itself marginalised by the preeminence that Sinn Féin gave to the national question. De Valera and others expressed sympathy for the labour movement's objectives but made ...
The Leader of the Labour Party is the most senior politician within the Labour Party in Ireland.Since 24 March 2022, the office has been held by Ivana Bacik, [1] following the resignation of Alan Kelly as leader of the party.
Irish officials and diplomats sought to cultivate contacts in the Labour Party in a bid to shape the policy of a future Blair administration.
On each occasion from 1948 until 2016, it was the leading party of a coalition with the Labour Party, and in three of those cases also with other smaller parties. At the 2011 general election, Fine Gael became the largest party in the Oireachtas with 36.1% of the vote. Fine Gael has 38 TDs, 17 senators, four MEPs and 246 councillors.
Ivana Catherine Bacik [a] (/ ˈ b ɑː tʃ ɪ k / [2]) (born 25 May 1968) is an Irish politician who has been the Leader of the Labour Party since 24 March 2022 and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Bay South constituency since winning a by-election on 9 July 2021.
Leader of the Labour Party. Ivana Bacik (24 March 2022 to date) Leader of the Social Democrats. Holly Cairns (1 March 2023 to date) Leader of Aontú. Peadar Tóibín (28 January 2019 to date; founding leader) Leader of Independent Ireland. Michael Collins (10 November 2023 to date; founding leader) Leader of the Green Party. Roderic O'Gorman ...
The National Labour Party (Irish: Páirtí Náisiúnta an Lucht Oibre [1]) was an Irish political party active between 1944 and 1950. It was founded in 1944 from a rebel faction of the Labour Party, inspired by the intransigence of the incumbent leadership of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU) against the majority of the party on the basis that communists had infiltrated ...