Democratic Left
Tomas Mac Giolla obituary
...to win the necessary two-thirds majority, but six of the seven Workers' party TDs left anyway, to form the Democratic Left. Mac Giolla remained within the Workers' party rump. He...
Moriarty report on Lowry to test Greens
...to the Taoiseach that the Greens would withdraw from government if Mr O'Dea did not step down. Mr O'Dea resigned on Thursday in a welter of political controversy arising from a...
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Tributes pour in for 'revolutionary socialist' and sincere leader
...to Dublin City Council in 1979 and to the Dail as a Workers' Party TD in 1982 . In 1993, the year after Democratic Left broke away from the Workers' Party, he was elected Lord Mayor of...
Former Workers' Party leader dies
...in 1988 and lost his seat in the Dail in 1992. It followed the split of the party and the setting up of Democratic Left. Paying tribute to Mr Mac Giolla, the current Workers Party...
The Democratic Left has since been integrated into the Irish Labour party, whose leader, Eamonn Gilmore, said: "Tomas Mac Giolla played a central role in trying to wean the republican movement away from its violent roots. Had more people listened to him in the late 1960s, 30 years of violence, and more than 3,000 deaths, might have been averted."
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Proinsias De Rossa
...an Irish Labour Party politician and former President of the Workers' Party and subsequently leader of Democratic Left , and later, a senior member of the Labour Party. He was Minister...
Liz McManus
...1991. McManus was first elected to Dail Eireann at the 1992 general election . She was then a member of the Democratic Left party. She has retained her seat in every subsequent...
Democratic Left (Ireland)
...being after a split in the Workers' Party and, after just seven years in existence, it merged into the Irish Labour Party . Democratic Left was formed after a split in the Workers' Party...
Pat McCartan
...and in the creation of a new party, New Agenda which subsequently became Democratic Left . He stood as a Democratic Left candidate at the 1992 general election but lost his seat. After...
Seamus Lynch
...eighth out of ten candidates. In 1992, Lynch sided with the split from the Workers' Party which produced Democratic Left , and he became the new group's main figure in Northern...
Des Geraghty
...election for the Dublin constituency as a Workers' Party candidate. In 1992 he joined the newly founded Democratic Left party. He was appointed to the European Parliament in 1992 for...
Patrick Gallagher (politician)
...Gallagher (born 1 December 1946) is a former Sinn Fein the Workers Party , Workers' Party of Ireland and Democratic Left politician who sat in Dail Eireann for the constituency of...
Michael Enright (politician)
Michael Enright (1952 - 16 October 1997) was a Democratic Left politician from County Wexford in Ireland . He was a member of Wexford Corporation and served briefly as a senator in 1997.
