Eamon Gilmore
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Eamon Gilmore (born 24 April 1955) is an Irish Labour Party politician. He is currently Teachta Dála for Dún Laoghaire and Party Spokesperson for the Environment & Local Government.
Born in Caltra, Co Galway, he was educated at Garbally College, Ballinasloe and University College Galway. He served as President of UCG Students' Union from July 1974 to June 1975. From 1976 until 1978 he served as President of the Union of Students in Ireland. He was one of a number of prominent USI figures who were associated at the time with Official Sinn Féin.
In 1985 he was elected to Dublin County Council. Gilmore was first elected to Dáil Éireann for the first time in the 1989 General Election as a member of the Workers' Party and has been re-elected on every occasion since then. In 1992 he joined with Proinsias De Rossa and five other Workers' Party deputies in the creation of New Agenda which subsequently became Democratic Left. It merged with the Labour Party in 1999. Between 1994 and 1997 Gilmore served as Minister of State at the Department of the Marine. Gilmore is currently the Labour Party Spokesperson for the Environment & Local Government.
| Preceded by Newly created office |
Minister of State at the Department of the Marine 1994-1997 |
Succeeded by Office abolished |
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Categories: 1955 births | Living people | Irish Democratic Left Party politicians | Irish Labour Party politicians | Irish Workers' Party politicians | Members of the 26th Dáil | Members of the 27th Dáil | Members of the 28th Dáil | Members of the 29th Dáil | People from County Galway | Teachtaí Dála
