Eamon Gilmore

Eamon Gilmore ( Irish: Éamon Mac Giollamóir, born April 24, 1955 in Caltra in County Galway ) is an Irish politician and, since September 6, 2007 Chairman of the Irish Labour Party.

Life

Gilmore studied at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he became politically active. He was, for example, President of NUI, Galway Students ' Union, then known as UCG Students' Union from July 1974 to June 1975. Between 1976 and 1978 he served as president of the Union of Students in Ireland ( USI). He was part of a series of prominent personalities of the USI, which were connected to parts of the Irish party Sinn Féin.

In 1985 he was elected to the Dublin County Council. 1989 finally choose him in a general election as a member of the Workers ' Party as a Member for the constituency of Dún Laoghaire in the Irish Parliament, in which he was repeatedly elected from then on. In 1992 he was one of the six MPs who left the Workers' Party and a new party, the Democratic Left ( DL) founded.

In the so-called Rainbow Coalition 1994-1997 Gilmore has held the office of Minister of State. 1999 took place the Democratic Left an association with the Irish Labour Party.

After the increasingly poor performance of the party Gilmore was proposed at the urging of party leaders in 2007 as a candidate for the post of party leader and elected to succeed Pat Rabbitte.

On 9 March 2011 the new Prime Minister ( Taoiseach ) Enda Kenny called him after the formation of the coalition of Fine Gael and Irish Labour Party Vice Prime Minister ( Tánaiste ) and foreign and trade ministers in the Irish government.