Eamon Gilmore

Eamon Gilmore

Eamon Gilmore ( Irish : Éamon Mac Giollamóir , born April 24, 1955 in Caltra , County Galway ) is an Irish politician and was chairman of the Irish Labor Party from September 6, 2007 to July 4, 2014 .

Life

Gilmore studied at the National University of Ireland, Galway , where he was politically active. So he was z. B. President of NUI, Galway Students 'Union then known as UCG Students' Union from July 1974 to June 1975. From 1976 to 1978 he served as President of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI). He was part of a number of prominent USI figures connected to the Irish Party (Official) - Sinn Féin - later renamed the Workers' Party .

In 1985 he was elected to Dublin County Council . In 1989 he was elected in a general election as a member of the Workers' Party as a member of the Irish parliament for the constituency of Dún Laoghaire , to which he was re-elected from then on. In 1992 he was one of six MPs who left the Workers' Party and formed a new party, the Democratic Left (DL).

In the so-called Rainbow Coalition from 1994 to 1997 Gilmore held the office of state minister. In 1999 the Democratic Left merged with the Irish Labor Party.

After the party's increasingly poor performance, Gilmore was proposed as a candidate for the office of party chairman in 2007 at the insistence of the party leaders and was elected to succeed Pat Rabbitte .

On March 9, 2011, the new Prime Minister ( Taoiseach ) Enda Kenny appointed him after the formation of the coalition of Fine Gael and Irish Labor Party as Vice Prime Minister ( Tánaiste ) and Foreign and Trade Minister in the Irish government . After the catastrophic performance of his party in the European and local elections, he announced his resignation from the position of party chairman on May 26, 2014. On July 4, 2014, he was replaced by the previous deputy party chairman and social security minister Joan Burton . On June 2, 2015, he announced that he would withdraw from state politics and no longer want to run for parliament in spring 2016.

On February 19, 2019, Eamon Gilmore was nominated by the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini as EU Special Representative for Human Rights . The following day, this appointment was confirmed by the EU Foreign Affairs Council.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gilmore declared new Labor leader - RTÉ News , September 6, 2007.
2. ↑ Breaking News, July 4, 2014
3. ↑ Pat Rabbitte statement ( Memento from February 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Eamon Gilmore to step down as Labor leader
5. ↑ Breaking News, June 2, 2015

Web links

Commons : Eamon Gilmore  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web site Eamon Gilmore (English)