- Barry Desmond
Barry Desmond ( _ga. Barra Deasún; born 15 May 1935 in Cork) is a former Irish Labour Party politician and government minister.
He was educated at the
Presentation Brothers , the School of Commerce andUniversity College Cork , and became a trade union official with theITGWU (known later asSIPTU )and theIrish Congress of Trade Unions .At the 1969 general election he was elected Labour TD for Dún Laoghaire. From 1981–1982 he served as Minister of State at the Department of Finance. In 1982, after the late 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 the24th Dáil covened in December,Garret FitzGerald was appointed asTaoiseach on the Dáil's nomination. Desmond was appointed Minister for Social Welfare and Minister for Health. He resigned from his ministerial posts on 20 January 1987, along with the other Labour ministers, bringing about the collapse of the government.At the 1987 general election, Desmond was returned to the
25th Dáil , whenFianna Fáil resumed power. He did not contest the 1989 general election, and on 15 June 1989 he was elected as a Labour MEP forDublin . He was a member of theEuropean Court of Auditors from 1994 to 2000.He was elected President of the
Maritime Institute of Ireland , 18 November 2006. He was preceded by Desmond Brannigan, and succeeded by Eoghain Ganley. He remains a member of the Council of the Maritime Institute of Ireland. As President he oversaw the revision of its articles of association and the securing of €3.2 million funding for the restoration of the Old Mariners' Church, which houses theNational Maritime Museum of Ireland .References
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