Brendan Corish
Brendan Corish
...and leader of his party from 1960 to 1977. He was Tanaiste of Ireland from 1973 to 1977. Brendan Corish was born in Wexford in 1918. He was educated locally at the Christian...
Brendan Howlin
...(1993-1994) and Minister for the Environment (1994-1997). Named after former Labour Party leader Brendan Corish, Brendan Howlin was born in Wexford in 1956. He was educated locally at...
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...the Labour leader, became Tanaiste and Minister for Social Welfare on both occasions. In 1960 Brendan Corish became the new Labour leader. As leader he advocated and introduced...
Irish general election, 1977
Following the election defeat the leaders of Fine Gael and the Labour Party, Liam Cosgrave and Brendan Corish resigned as leaders of their respective parties, the first occasion in...
Young Labour League
...in Dublin. It had the only stall at Liberty Hall, Dublin, at the Party's annual conference at which Brendan Corish announced that: "The Seventies will be Socialist". The stall, at the...
Liam Cosgrave
...Richie Ryan rather than Garret FitzGerald as his Minister for Finance when the Labour Party leader, Brendan Corish, declined the position in 1973. Ryan, a Dublin solicitor, was of...
Tributes pour in for respected, 'extremely talented' politician
...senior lecturer in veterinary medicine in UCD. He rejoined the Labour Party at a time when its then leader Brendan Corish was promising that the "70s would be socialist". Just like Fine...
Wexford (Dail Eireann constituency)
...Howlin, the former deputy leader of the Labour Party. He follows in the footsteps of the former Labour Party leader and Tanaiste, Brendan Corish, who served the area for many years.
Frank Cluskey
...Mayor of Dublin. In 1973 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Social Welfare, Brendan Corish. He introduced sweeping reforms to the area while he held that...
Flor O'Mahony
...to 1977, O'Mahony was a policy advisor to the Tanaiste and Minister for Health , Labour Party leader Brendan Corish. When Labour returned to opposition after 1977 general election he...
Brendan Halligan
...involved in politics. In that year he became General-Secretary of the Labour Party . The leader, Brendan Corish, relied on Halligan's intellectual and political skills in his new role.
Richard Corish
The death of Richard Corish occasioned a by-election for the Dail which was won by his son, Brendan Corish. Brendan was later a leader of the Labour Party and a Tanaiste (equivalent...
