Michael Ring
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Michael Ring (born December 1953) is an Irish politician, serving as Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) for Mayo. Fine Gael today describes itself as a party of the centre-right in the model of the mainland European Christian democratic parties, committed to developing a wider more pluralistic sense of Irish nationalism.
Ring is generally considered popular, if at times outspoken, by his constituents. A former auctioneer, he was first elected in a by-election in 1994 and has been returned at every election since. He has served on the Fine Gael frontbench as shadow social and family affairs minister.
Ring is an entusiastic supporter of the arts and is believed to have been behind the commissioning of British artists Gilbert and George to furnish a piece of installation art which is to be located at the apparition wall of the old church at Knock Shrine, Co. Mayo.
[edit] External links
- Michael Ring's page on the Fine Gael website
- Michael Ring's electoral history (ElectionsIreland.org)
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