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Mick Wallace
MEP
Wallace in 2019
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2019
Constituency
South
Teachta Dála
In office February 2011 – July 2019
Constituency
Wexford
Personal details
Born
(1955-11-09) 9 November 1955 (age 68)[1] Wexford, Ireland
Political party
Ireland: I4C
EU: GUE/NGL
Spouse
Mary Murphy
(m. 1979; div. 1992)
Children
4
Alma mater
University College Dublin
Website
mickwallace.net
Michael Wallace (born 9 November 1955) is an Irish politician and former property developer who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the South constituency since July 2019. He is a member of Independents 4 Change, part of The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wexford constituency from 2011 to 2019.[2][3]
Entering politics in 2011 following the post-2008 Irish economic downturn, Wallace was considered to be one of the most eccentric and unconventional figures in Irish politics.[4][5]
Wallace gained a reputation for anti-establishment and left-wing populist views,[5][6] and became a frequent guest on the political debate show Tonight with Vincent Browne. He soon aligned himself with Clare Daly, forming a political duo still operating as a unit today. In 2012, it emerged that during his time as a property developer, Wallace's company owed €2.1 million to the state in unpaid value-added taxes.[7][8][9][10][11][12]
Since becoming an MEP in 2019, Wallace has also gained attention for his foreign policy positions, particularly on Russia and China. His views have been the subject of controversy and criticism in Europe, but have been promoted by state-controlled media in Russia, China, Syria, and other authoritarian states.[5][13][14][15][16][17]
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^"Mick Wallace". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
^Keena, Colm (7 November 2016). "Bankruptcy move latest twist in Mick Wallace-Cerberus saga". The Irish Times. Dublin. ISSN 0791-5144. Archived from the original on 17 February 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
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^ abcByrne, Elaine (April 2022). "Elaine Byrne: How the people's champions became tools of the Kremlin propaganda machine". Business Post. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
^McCarthy, Justine (9 December 2022). "Justine McCarthy: Wallace's sympathy for Iranian regime strips bare his faux radicalism". The Irish Times. Retrieved 9 December 2022. Personally likeable, he built an electoral appeal with his anti-establishment persona – trespassing in protest against US military use at Shannon Airport and making explosive revelations about Nama, the State's bad bank for developers. The publicity he reaped could be measured in newspaper column inches stretching all the way from Leinster House to Wexford and back again.
^Heffernan, Breda (9 June 2012). "Wallace plans to address Dail on Tuesday". Irish Independent. Retrieved 7 July 2022. Mr Wallace is heading off to Poland for Euro 2012, despite the huge backlash against his false declaration of VAT and an unpaid €2.1m tax bill.
^"Clare Daly resigns from the Socialist Party". RTÉ News. 1 September 2012. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
^"Profile: Clare Daly TD". The Phoenix. 2 May 2019. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
^Grant, Adrian (21 October 2021). "Column: Troubles over Mick Wallace follow a long line of left-wing splits". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 7 July 2022. The fallout from technical group member Mick Wallace's tax affairs has seen Clare Daly resign from the Socialist Party
^McQuinn, Cormac (6 July 2021). "In focus: Mick Wallace - the boomtime builder whose fortunes were battered by economic crash". Irish Independent. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
^Ní Aodha, Gráinne (19 December 2019). "Can Mick Wallace still be a TD after being declared bankrupt today?". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
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^Grimes, David Robert (17 March 2022). "Putin's Willing Disinformation Agents". Byline Times. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
^Bielenberg, Kim (4 February 2022). "Mick Wallace and Clare Daly — the 'anti-imperialists' who defended Putin". Irish Independent.
^Loughlin, Elaine (8 March 2022). "Wallace and Daly fail to reflect the wishes of the people they represent". Irish Examiner.
^Clifford, Michael (4 July 2021). "Michael Clifford: Mick Wallace is making a right show of himself". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
2022. "MickWallace criticises protests in Iran and 'propaganda' against regime". The Irish Times. Retrieved 25 November 2022. "MEP MickWallace criticises...
Since 2012, Daly has had a close political association with MickWallace. After Wallace was condemned by the Socialist Party for tax evasion, Daly resigned...
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property sale: MickWallace claims Belfast firm had £7m in bank after deal". BBC News. 2 July 2015. Retrieved 2015-10-11. "Nama says MickWallace has no evidence...
and yet again in Tipperary at the general elections of 2016 and 2020. MickWallace, an Independent TD, refused to resign his seat after admitting to tax...
here are the party's two successful candidates in the 2019 election, MickWallace and Clare Daly. Will not appear on the ballot as Rabharta. The Electoral...
electoral areas in Wexford County Council. None of them were elected. MickWallace, Clare Daly, Joan Collins, and Tommy Broughan, and councillor Barry Martin...
private income but was charged with obstructing the McCracken tribunal. MickWallace, an independent politician from Wexford, was revealed in 2012 to have...
Pictured here is the party's two successful candidates in this election, MickWallace and Clare Daly "Polling Day Orders made for European and local elections"...
adopted a new crest with rampant bull, inspired by Torino's. Club chairman MickWallace is known to be a Torino fan. Crest of Torino (1936-1946) Crest of Torino...
"dissolved again in 2019". In an amendment tabled by Clare Daly and MickWallace of the GUE/NGL group in the European Parliament on 16 December 2020,...
assistance to Georgia conditional on scrapping the legislation. MEP MickWallace instead condemned the EU and the US for using "our money" for setting...
the Troika on 17 January 2012, another member of the Technical Group, MickWallace, confronted Boyd Barrett and angrily criticized him for "ignoring their...
challenge the legislation, which was eventually changed in 2014 with MickWallace, a bankrupt TD, sitting from 2016 to 2019. On 24 June 2007, Flynn announced...
registered as a political party since 2014. Its registered officer is MEP MickWallace. They have two MEPs and two councillors. The Human Dignity Alliance (HDA)...
assistant whip. Finian McGrath resigned as chairman in October 2012 when MickWallace rejoined the loose group, against the wishes of many of its members....
TD MickWallace, it was renamed Independents 4 Change in October 2015. By the time the 31st Dáil was dissolved it counted among its members Wallace, Joan...
club was the brainchild of former property developer and politician MickWallace, who funded the construction of a complex for the new team's home at...
November 2019 Wexford by-election, which was called after the election of MickWallace to the European Parliament. During the by-election campaign, Murphy made...
powerful than broadcaster's own director general". The Irish Times. Heaney, Mick (4 September 2020). "Newstalk's new drivetime host Kieran Cuddihy tries too...
"MickWallace taken to Limerick Prison over fine". RTÉ News. RTÉ. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015. Deegan, Gordon (22 April 2015). "Mick Wallace:...