Michael O'Leary (politician)

Michael O'Leary ( Irish : Micheál Ó Laoire ; * May 8, 1936 in Cork ; † May 11, 2006 in France ) was an Irish politician of the Irish Labor Party and the Fine Gael , Deputy Prime Minister ( Tánaiste ) and several ministers .

biography

O'Leary began his political career in 1965 when he was elected as a candidate for the Irish Labor Party for the first time to the House of Commons ( Dáil Éireann ), in which he represented the constituency of Dublin North-Central until 1987 .

In the coalition government of Fine Gael and the Labor Party under Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave , he was Labor Minister from 1973 to 1977, and in this role he made particular contributions to the implementation of European law into Irish national law in the field of equal pay and workers' rights .

In 1979 he became a member of the 1st European Parliament . When Labor leader Frank Cluskey lost his seat in the parliamentary elections on June 30, 1981, O'Leary took over as chairman, while Cluskey succeeded him as a member of the European Parliament.

In the subsequent coalition government of Fine Gael and Labor Party under Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald , he became Deputy Prime Minister ( Tánaiste ) and Energy Minister on June 30, 1981 . After the collapse of the coalition on March 9, 1982, he left the Labor Party disappointed and joined the Fine Gael. The successor as party chairman was Dick Spring .

After leaving the House of Commons in 1987, he was appointed judge at a District Court and held this office until May 2006, a few days before his death.

source

• Short biography on rulers.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Irish Ministries