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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.
Since 24 March 2022, the office has been held by Ivana Bacik, [1] following the resignation of Alan Kelly as leader of the party. In a review of procedures at the party's 2017 conference, the position of Deputy Leader was abolished after a year of lying vacant, and the nomination and seconding of new leadership candidates was extended to ...
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%.
Ivana Bacik held separate meetings with Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris and Tanaiste and Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin on Tuesday.
The leader of the Irish Labour Party Ivana Bacik will also hold a meeting with Sir Keir in the Irish capital. On Friday, the Labour leader will be in Belfast to meet political leaders in Stormont ...
Ireland's Labour Party on Thursday ruled out entering government as a junior partner to the country's two large centre-right parties, which will likely now move to secure a coalition deal with a ...
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.
Irish officials and diplomats sought to cultivate contacts in the Labour Party in a bid to shape the policy of a future Blair administration.