Eamon Gilmore TD - Biography
Constituency:
Dún Laoghaire
Euro Electoral Region:
Dublin
Electoral Status:
Eamon is currently a sitting TD for Dún Laoghaire
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Tel:
Constituency Office, Dept. of Foreign Affairs: 01 4082018
Email:
eamon.gilmore@oir.ie
Political Career:
- Eamon Gilmore is the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for which he received his seal of office from the President on the 9th March 2011. He has been the Leader of the Labour Party since September 2007.
- Born into a small farming family in Caltra, Co Galway Eamon has, since his teenage years, immersed himself in some of the nation’s most important political and social campaigns. Through the peace-train initiative, he worked to assert civil liberties and promote a peaceful resolution to the Northern conflict. To promote a reasonable standard of living for individuals and families, he helped organise the tax marches in the 1970s. As one of the key strategists behind the election of Mary Robinson, he helped to deliver a more liberal, tolerant and modern Ireland.
- As a student leader, Eamon was the youngest elected leader of the Union of Students in Ireland (1976) when he became President at the age of 20, he worked within a structure which served to unify the student movement in Northern Ireland during the troubles; as a trade unionist, he worked to promote employee rights and secure dispute resolutions; he worked across political parties and the environmental movement to keep Ireland nuclear-free; and in politics he was one of the strategists behind the historic merger of Democratic Left and the Labour Party.
- Eamon was elected to Dublin County Council in 1985 and was first elected to the Dáil in 1989 to represent the people of the Dún Laoghaire Constituency and has been re-elected in the 1992, 1997, 2002 and 2007 general elections.
- During the 1994 – 1997 Rainbow government, he served as Minister for State for Marine where he is credited for overseeing major reform in port ownership, and investment in port development; banning nuclear vessels from Irish seas and restricting dumping at sea. Prior to becoming Party Leader he sat on the Labour Party front bench as Environment, Housing and local Government Spokesperson. In addition he has been active in policy development and election strategy at a high-level.
Occupation:
- Full Time Public Representative
- Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and Labour Party Leader
Memberships:
- Chairperson of Labour’s Policy Committee
- Member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party
- Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- Member of Joint Committee on Environment and Local Government 2002 - 2007
Family Background:
- Married to Carol, together they have three children.
Birth Details:
- Galway, April 1955
Education:
- Garbally College, Ballinasloe and Psychology at University College, Galway
