- Toddy O'Sullivan
Toddy O'Sullivan ( _ga. Tomás Ó Suilleabháin; born 1934) is a retired Irish
Labour Party politician who served for sixteen years as TD for constituencies in Cork, and for five years as a junior government minister. He also served as Lord Mayor of Cork in 1980/81.A native of the Barrack Street area in the south inner city area of Cork, O'Sullivan was educated at Greenmount National School before becoming a postal clerk.fact|date=January 2008
Electoral history
A member of
Cork City Council , O'Sullivan wasLord Mayor of Cork for the 1980–81 term. O'Sullivan first stood as a candidate forDáil Éireann at the by-election on 7 November 1979 in the Cork City constituency, following the death of Labour TDPatrick Kerrigan . The by-election was won byFine Gael 'sLiam Burke , but O'Sullivan was successful at his next attempt, when he topped the poll at the 1981 general election in the new constituency of Cork North Central.He was re-elected at the next five general elections, moving in 1987 to Cork South Central, before losing his seat at the 1997 general election. He stood again at the by-election on 23 October 1998 in Cork South Central following the death of Fine Gael TD
Hugh Coveney , but the seat was won by Coveney's son Simon.Ministerial career
In the
24th Dáil , he was initially overlooked for promotion under theFine Gael -Labour coalition government ofTaoiseach Garret FitzGerald , but in February 1986 he was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of the Environment. Along with the other Labour ministers, he resigned on 20 January 1987 in protest at proposed cuts in health spending, bringing about the coalition's collapse.Six years later, after the 1992 general election led to a
Fianna Fáil -Labour coalition, O'Sullivan was again overlooked for ministerial office, and instead became Chairman of the Dáil's Enterprise and Economic Strategy Committee. After the collapse of that government and its replacement with theFine Gael -Labour-Democratic Left Rainbow Coalition,Taoiseach John Bruton appointed him in December 1994 as Minister of State at the Department of Tourism and Trade, a position he held untilFianna Fáil returned to power at the 1997 general election.External links
* [http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=3284 Toddy O'Sullivan's electoral history] (ElectionsIreland.org)
* [http://www.corkcity.ie/citycouncil/mayorsofcork/ List of Mayors of Cork, including O'Sullivan]Navboxes
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