Barry Desmond
Labour Party (Ireland), Presentation Brothers, University College Cork, Irish Transport and General Workers' Union
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Barry Desmond is a former Irish Labour Party politician and government minister. He was educated at the Presentation Brothers, the School of Commerce and University College Cork, and became a trade union official with the ITGWU and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. His father Cornelius was Lord Mayor of Cork from 1965-66. At the 1969 general election he was elected Labour TD for Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown. From 1981 1982 he served as Minister of State at the Depart...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Barry Desmond is a former Irish Labour Party politician and government minister. He was educated at the Presentation Brothers, the School of Commerce and University College Cork, and became a trade union official with the ITGWU and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. His father Cornelius was Lord Mayor of Cork from 1965-66. At the 1969 general election he was elected Labour TD for Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown. From 1981 1982 he served as Minister of State at the Department of Finance. In 1982, after Michael O'Leary's resignation as Labour Party leader, Dick Spring was elected as the party's new leader and Desmond was chosen as his deputy. The Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition was returned to power in the November 1982 general election, and when the 24th Dáil covened in December, Garret FitzGerald was appointed as Taoiseach on the Dáil's nomination. Desmond was appointed Minister for Social Welfare and Minister for Health
