Biography

Constituency:
Dún Laoghaire

Euro Electoral Region:
Dublin

Electoral Status:
Eamon is currently a sitting TD for Dún Laoghaire .

Address:
1 Corbawn Close
Shankill
Co Dublin

Tel:
Dail: 01 6183566
Fax: 01 6184574
Mobile: 087 2200495

Email:
eamon.gilmore@oir.ie

Political Career:

Eamon Gilmore is a campaigner and politician, and 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 led the creation of an all-island student movement at the height of 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.
As Leader of the Labour Party, Eamon's ambition is to grow the Party by ensuring that it responds most effectively to the changing needs of our society and our economy. He wants Labour to have a more proactive role in shaping our country and he believes Ireland can emerge from the current economic crisis as the most sustainable economy in Europe, from an economic, social and environmental perspective.

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