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The Leader of the Labour Party is the most senior politician within the Labour Party in Ireland. Since 24 March 2022, the office has been held by Ivana Bacik , [ 1 ] following the resignation of Alan Kelly as leader of the party.
Leader of Sinn Féin. Mary Lou McDonald (10 February 2018 to date) Leader of the Labour Party. Ivana Bacik (24 March 2022 to date) Leader of the Social Democrats. Holly Cairns (1 March 2023 to date) Leader of Aontú. Peadar Tóibín (28 January 2019 to date; founding leader) Leader of Independent Ireland. Michael Collins (10 November 2023 to ...
Elected Leader Ivana Bacik The 2022 Labour Party leadership election was a leadership election within Ireland's Labour Party that was triggered when Alan Kelly stepped down as Labour leader on 2 March 2022, citing a lack of confidence in his leadership from party colleagues as the reason.
Irish officials and diplomats sought to cultivate contacts in the Labour Party in a bid to shape the policy of a future Blair administration.
Eastwood will formally resign at the party's conference on 5 October 2024 to allow a new leader to be elected. Nominations for the leadership opened on 30 August with only Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast South and Mid Down Claire Hanna and the party's eight Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) eligible to put their names forward over the following seven days.
In 2013 he was elected as the chair of the Rush branch of the party. [5] O'Donoghue was co-opted onto Fingal County Council in 2018, replacing the retiring Ken Farrell. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Representing the Rush-Lusk area, he topped local elections polls twice, once in 2019 and again in June 2024 , with his vote share increasing from 18.6% to 25.9%.
The Labour Party leader appoints a team of TDs and Senators to speak for the party on different issues. When the Labour Party was in Government their front bench consisted of the ministerial officeholders. The Labour Party has been in opposition since March 2016 and accordingly, their front bench areas of responsibility broadly correspond to ...
The Irish Labour Party and the Irish Trades Union Congress separated in 1930. Future leader William Norton was prominent in urging the separation of the political and industrial wings of the labour movement into autonomous organisations, arguing that the move was necessary to broaden the party's electoral appeal beyond a trade union constituency.