Justin Keating

Justin Keating

Justin Keating ( _ga. Saorbhreathach Céitinn; born 7 January 1930) was a senior Irish Labour Party politician.

Born in Dublin, Keating was educated at Sandford Park School, and then at University College Dublin and the University of London. He became a lecturer in anatomy at UCD’s veterinary college from 1955 until 1960 and was senior lecturer at Trinity College Dublin from 1960 until 1965. He was RTÉ's head of agricultural programmes for two years before returning to Trinity in 1967. While at RTÉ, he scripted and presented "Telefís Feirme", a series for the agricultural community, for which he won a Jacob's Award in 1966.

Keating was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1969 general election as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin County North. From 1973 to 1977 he served in the National Coalition government under Liam Cosgrave as Minister for Industry & Commerce. In 1973 he was appointed a Member of the European Parliament from the Oireachtas, serving on the short-lived first delegation. He lost his Dáil in Fianna Fáil's landslide victory at the 1977 general election, but was subsequently elected to the 14th Seanad Éireann on the Agricultural Panel, serving there until 1981. He briefly served again in the European Parliament from February to June 1984 when he replaced Séamus Pattison.

He published [http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.israel/msg/a7b2a8a6bd14afce?dmode=source&hl=en an op-ed about Israel and Zionism] in "The Dubliner" Magazine in November 2005.

He is currently President of the Humanist Association of Ireland.

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