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The Labour Party (Irish: Páirtí an Lucht Oibre, lit.'Party of the Working People') is a centre-left [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] and social democratic [ 6 ][ 7 ] political party in the Republic of Ireland. [ 8 ] 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 ...
The Labour Party has been part of the political scene in Ireland throughout the state's existence. Although never attracting majority support, it has repeatedly participated in coalition governments. The party was established in 1912 by James Connolly, James Larkin, and William O'Brien and others as the political wing of the Irish Trades Union ...
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP; Irish: Páirtí Sóisialta agus Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) [ 8 ] is a social-democratic [ 5 ][ 9 ][ 10 ] and Irish nationalist [ 9 ][ 11 ][ 12 ] political party in Northern Ireland. The SDLP currently has seven members in the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLAs) and two members of Parliament (MPs) in ...
The Labour Party is the fifth-largest political party in the Oireachtas. The Labour Party leader appoints a team of TDs and Senators to speak for the party on different issues. When the Labour Party was in Government their front bench consisted of the ministerial officeholders. The Labour Party has been in opposition since March 2016 and ...
Fergus Finlay (born 1 June 1950) [1] is the former Chief Executive of the charity Barnardos in Ireland, leaving the post in 2018. He was a senior member of the Irish Labour Party and is also a weekly columnist with the Irish Examiner and the author of a number of books. Having worked in government press secretarial roles in the 1980s, Finlay ...
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. In a review of procedures at the party's 2017 conference, the position of Deputy Leader was abolished after a year of ...
The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. [13][14][15] In a broader sense, the party has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. [16] It is the governing party of the United Kingdom, having won the ...
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 ...