Pat Rabbitte

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Pat Rabbitte (May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte , Irish Pádraic Ó Coinín (born June 18, 1949 in County Mayo , Ireland ) is an Irish politician and was the chairman of the Irish Labor Party from 2002 to 2007 .

Life

Rabbitte was already politically active during his studies. He was chairman of the University College Galway student union from 1970 to 1971 and chairman of the Union of Students in Ireland from 1972 to 1974 . After graduating, he became active in the trade union movement and was a member of the Labor Party until 1976. He then turned to the left and finally found a new political home at the Workers' Party , for which he was elected to the Irish Parliament for the first time in 1989. Since then he has been a member of Parliament without interruption.

In 1992 he was one of six MPs who left the Workers' Party and formed a new party, the Democratic Left (DL). In the coalition government that his party formed from 1994 to 1997 together with the Labor Party and the Fine Gael , Rabbitte was Minister of State .

After the so-called Rainbow Coalition was voted out of office in 1997, the Democratic Left united with the Labor Party in 1999.

After the elections in 2002, which were disappointing for the party, the previous Labor leader Ruairi Quinn resigned and Rabbitte was elected party leader in a ballot by the members of the Labor Party. His deputy, Liz McManus , was also a member of the Democratic Left until 1999.

In 2007 Rabbitte resigned from the position of party chairman as a result of his party's performance in the elections, and Eamon Gilmore became the new party chairman . Since March 2011 he was Minister for Communication, Energy and Raw Material Reserves. When Eamon Gilmore resigned as party leader, he resigned from the cabinet in July 2014. His successor in the ministry was Alex White from the Labor Party.

On December 18, 2018, he was appointed chairman of the board of the Child and Family Agency , a government agency with around 4,000 employees that aims to ensure the well-being and promote the development of children and support their families.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pat Rabbitte ( memento of February 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on rte.ie
personal data
SURNAME Rabbitte, Pat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ó Coinín, Pádraic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish politician, leader of the Irish Labor Party (2002–2007)
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH County Mayo , Ireland