Barry Desmond is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Member of the European Court of Auditors from 1994 to 2000,Minister for Health from 1982 to 1987,Minister for Social Welfare from 1982 to 1986 and a Minister of State from 1981 to 1982. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 1989 to 1994 and a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1969 to 1989.
Macroom is a market town in County Cork,Ireland,located in the valley of the River Sullane,halfway between Cork city and Killarney. Its population has grown and receded over the centuries as it went through periods of war,famine and workhouses,forced emigration and intermittent prosperity. The 2011 census gave an urban population of 3,879 people,while the 2016 census recorded 3,765 people.
Timothy Joseph Murphy was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as Minister for Local Government from 1948 to 1949. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork West constituency from 1923 to 1949.
The National Labour Party 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 Labour at the turn of the 1940s.
Michael O'Riordan was the founder of the Communist Party of Ireland (3rd) and also fought with the Connolly Column in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.
Michael Creed is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North-West constituency since 2007,and previously from 1989 to 2002. He previously served as Minister for Agriculture,Food and the Marine from 2016 to 2020.
Liam Ahern was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served in both Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann.
James Hickey was an Irish Labour Party politician who joined the short-lived breakaway National Labour Party. He served four terms as Lord Mayor of Cork.
Labour Youth is the youth wing of the Labour Party of Ireland. Membership is open to those aged from 16 to 30 years old.
The September 1927 Irish general election to the 6th Dáil was held on Thursday,15 September,following the dissolution of the 5th Dáil on 25 August by Governor-General Tim Healy on the request of President of the Executive Council W. T. Cosgrave.
Michael McCarthy is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-West constituency from 2011 to 2016. He was a Senator for the Labour Panel from 2002 to 2011 and as a local councillor on Cork County Council from 1999 to 2003.
Seán Sherlock is an Irish Labour Party politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork East constituency since the 2007 general election. He served as a Minister of State from 2011 to 2016.
Liam de Róiste was an Irish Sinn Féin politician,diarist and Gaelic scholar.
William J. Murphy was an Irish Labour Party politician.
Daniel Corkery was an Irish politician and Commandant in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence. From Macroom,County Cork,Corkery was one of the main IRA officers during the Coolavokig ambush in February 1921.
A Cork County Council election was held in Ireland on 23 May 2014 as part of that year's local elections. Fifty-five councillors were elected from a field of 114 candidates for a five-year term of office from eight local electoral areas by proportional representation with a single transferable vote.
The Social Democrats are a centre-left,social-democratic political party in Ireland. The party was launched on 15 July 2015 by three independent TeachtaíDála,Catherine Murphy,and Róisín Shortall,and Stephen Donnelly. It promotes the Nordic model and pro-European views.
Elections to the Cork Corporation took place on Thursday 15 January 1920 as part of that year's Irish local elections.
An election to Cork City Council was held in Cork city in Ireland on 24 May 2019 as part of that year's local elections. Thirty-one councillors were elected from five local electoral areas (LEAs) by single transferable vote. This election broadly coincided with an increase in the city council area,and several outgoing members of Cork County Council,based in areas transferred to the city,stood for election to the city council. Besides extending all LEAs into the former county area,the former LEA of North Central was abolished and its area divided between North West and North East.
Holly Cairns,also known as Holly McKeever Cairns,is an Irish Social Democrats politician who has been Leader of the Social Democrats since March 2023. She has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork South-West since the 2020 general election. She was a member of Cork County Council for the Bantry local electoral area from 2019 to 2020.
