(1940-05-15) 15 May 1940 (age 84) Finglas, Dublin, Ireland
Political party
Labour Party (since 1999)
Other political affiliations
Democratic Left (1992–1999)
Workers' Party (1970–1992)
Sinn Féin (until 1970)
Alma mater
Dublin Institute of Technology
Proinsias De Rossa (born 15 May 1940) is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as Minister for Social Welfare from 1994 to 1997, Leader of Democratic Left from 1992 to 1999 and Leader of the Workers' Party from 1988 to 1992. He served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 1989 to 1992 and 1999 to 2012. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-West constituency from 1989 to 2002.[1]
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was re-elected at the 1989 general election. In 1992 he joined with ProinsiasDeRossa and five other Workers' Party deputies in resigning from the Workers'...
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preference votes. She served as one of two Sinn Féin MEPs, the other being Bairbre de Brún who was representing Northern Ireland. In 2007, she was shortlisted for...
1992, he objected to the political reforms proposed by party leader ProinsiasDeRossa, and remained in the Workers' Party after the formation of Democratic...
the World, choosing its syndicalism over the doctrinaire Marxism of Daniel DeLeon's Socialist Labor Party of America, to which he had been initially drawn...
to make a breakthrough. In Dublin, Gay Mitchell of Fine Gael and ProinsiasDeRossa of Labour were re-elected, while Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party...
was broadcast through the influential medium of television. In 1993 ProinsiasDeRossa and John Deasy mentioned Glenroe in a discussion about the quality...
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European Parliament in the Dublin constituency. She ran with sitting MEP ProinsiasDeRossa, who was also the party president, on the same ticket. She polled...
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