Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
Party deputy leader Cian O'Callaghan stepped in as interim party leader in her absence. [130] The Labour Party increased its number of seats from six to 11. In a statement released after the election, Labour stated that it would only enter government with a, "progressive, left-of-centre bloc with like-minded parties," as well as outlining their ...
After securing re-election, Irish party leaders face the challenge of trying to form the next government. ... At one point he had a 2,000 vote lead on Labour's Marie Sherlock, but she overtook him ...
Labour Party leader Ivana Bacik at the election count centre at RDS Simmonscourt, Dublin (Brian Lawless/PA) He told the PA news agency he will talk to other parties about forming a government.
Ivana Catherine Bacik [a] (born 25 May 1968) is an Irish politician who has been the Leader of the Labour Party since 24 March 2022 and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Bay South constituency since winning a by-election on 9 July 2021.
The party has lost 11 of the 12 seats it won in 2020, including that held by media minister Catherine Martin, with leader and children’s minister Roderic O’Gorman clinging on to remain its ...
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.