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The Labour Party (Irish: Páirtí an Lucht Oibre, lit. ' Party of the Working People ') is a centre-left [3] [4] [5] and social democratic [6] [7] political party in the Republic of Ireland. [8] Founded on 28 May 1912 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, by James Connolly, James Larkin, and William O'Brien as the political wing of the Irish Trades ...
The National Labour Party (Irish: Páirtí Náisiúnta an Lucht Oibre [1]) was an Irish political party active between 1944 and 1950. It was founded in 1944 from a rebel faction of the Labour Party, inspired by the intransigence of the incumbent leadership of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU) against the majority of the party on the basis that communists had infiltrated ...
During this period the party also stood for elections in Northern Ireland, after a split in the Northern Ireland Labour Party. In 1960 Brendan Corish became the new Labour leader. As leader he advocated and introduced more socialist policies to the party. Between 1973 and 1987 Labour three times more went into coalition governments with Fine Gael.
The party plans to ensure economic stability, cut NHS waiting times and reform planning rules to build more than one million new homes. The Labour Party General Election manifesto at a glance Skip ...
She represented the Cabra-Glasnevin local electoral area on Dublin City Council from 2019 to 2020, [4] and was the party's Head of Manifesto Development. [5] At the 2020 Seanad election, she was elected to Seanad Éireann on the Labour Panel. [6]
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The party was founded on 21 August 1970, when six Stormont MPs (Gerry Fitt, Republican Labour Party; Austin Currie, Nationalist Party; Paddy Devlin, Northern Ireland Labour Party; John Hume, Ivan Cooper and Paddy O'Hanlon, Independent) and one Senator (Paddy Wilson, Republican Labour), joined to form a new party. [5]
Labour’s manifesto will contain no surprises on tax, Sir Keir Starmer has said as he sought to calm nerves about the possibility of shock costs to voters in his soon-to-be-unveiled full General ...