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  Frank Cluskey Information
Frank Cluskey (1 April 1930–7 April 1989) was an Irish politician and a former leader of the Irish Labour Party.
Frank Cluskey was born on 1 April 1930 in Dublin.
Frank Cluskey died on 7 May 1989 after a long battle with cancer.
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  Frank Cluskey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frank Cluskey (Irish: Proinsias Mac Bhloscaidh; 1 April 1930–7 April 1989) was an Irish politician and a former leader of the Irish Labour Party.
Frank Cluskey was born on 1 April 1930 in Dublin.
Frank Cluskey died on 7 May 1989 after a long battle with cancer.
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 Frank Cluskey - Politics.ie Wiki
Cluskey was heavily involved in the trade union movement throughout his life and was a Branch Secretary with the Federated Workers' Union of Ireland from 1954-68 throughout his time as a butcher.
Cluskey became the third Labour Party leader to be defeated in a general election after Thomas Johnson and T.J. O'Connell.
Cluskey suffered a further setback when he was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1984 European Election in which Labour went from 4 seats to none.
www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=Frank_Cluskey   (460 words)

  
 U-WIRE.com/Former Minnesota player alleges plot against tennis coach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Cluskey said Thomson confided in her through phone calls and a personal meeting to deal with his problems coaching women.
Cluskey quit the team because of what she calls Thomson's "emotionally abusive" conduct with players.
Cluskey's stepfather and his attorney have been in contact with Maturi since she quit the team.
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 Dáil Éireann - Volume 269 - 20 November, 1973 - Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Disability Benefit ...
Cluskey): There is no evidence that [9] insured persons have experienced any difficulty in the matter of claiming disability benefit as a result of the junior hospital doctors dispute.
Cluskey: As I explained in the reply to the question, there is no evidence that any difficulty has been experienced.
Cluskey: The Deputy created a problem where none existed in a very difficult and delicate situation.
www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0269/D.0269.197311200008.html   (486 words)

  
 Frank Cluskey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Frank Cluskey was born on 1 April 1930 inDublin.
Cluskey became thenew leader of the Labour Party.
However Cluskey had lost his seat in Dáil Éireann in the 1981 general election and with it the partyleadership.
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 Dáil Éireann - Volume 273 - 11 June, 1974 - Ceisteanna — Questions. Oral Answers. - Free Colour TV Licences.
Cluskey: No, it is not contemplated at the moment to change the present system.
Cluskey: Yes, but I think if they were in a position to make a gift of a colour television set they could arrange to pay the difference in the cost of the licence.
Cluskey: The attitude of the Government is that this issue is not a matter of priority.
historical-debates.oireachtas.ie /D/0273/D.0273.197406110006.html   (398 words)

  
 Michael O'Leary - Politics.ie Wiki
However, Cluskey lost his seat in the 1981 General Election, being defeated by Dr. John O'Connell, formerly of the Labour Party and then running as an Independent.
Cluskey resigned as Leader of the party after this and O’Leary was unanimously elected as Leader.
Upon his appointment as a Government Minister Cluskey was co-opted to his seat in the European Parliament.
www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=Michael_O%27Leary   (583 words)

  
 Dáil Éireann - Volume 276 - 28 November, 1974 - Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Telephone Service.
Cluskey: The information I have available is that the population within approximately a mile radius is 150 people and that there are four rented telephones, including two coin box lines in the shop of the licensed premises in the village.
Cluskey: It is planned to provide a telephone kiosk at Bohola early in 1975.
Cluskey: It is hoped to provide service for the person in question by the end of this week.
www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0276/D.0276.197411280027.html   (750 words)

  
 Dáil Éireann - Volume 265 - 05 June, 1973 - Ceistéanna—Questions Oral Answers - Free Electricity Allowance.
Cluskey): Eligibility for free electricity allowance is confined to persons over 70 years who are in receipt of old age pension or similar social welfare type pension and who fulfil the other conditions of the scheme.
As the Deputy is, no doubt, aware not only is the qualifying age for the old age pension being reduced to 69 years from July next but the means conditions for non-contributory pensions are being very considerably eased.
Cluskey: As the Deputy is aware, the qualifying limit was £273.
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 John O'Connell - Wiki Ireland
He held a seat for the Party until 1981 when he was expelled for refusing to stand in the Dublin West constituency.
Instead he stood in the Dublin South-Central constituency, opposing the leader of the Party, Frank Cluskey.
In 1981 O'Connell was appointed Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann, a position he held until December 1982.
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 Dáil Éireann - Volume 344 - 06 July, 1983 - Written Answers. - Motor Cycle Insurance.
Ahern asked the Minister for Trade, Commerce and Tourism if he will consider amending legislation to [1807] ensure that insurance companies are compelled to cover at reasonable costs motor bike owners and prevent such companies from treating this category of motor users unfairly.
Cluskey): The level of premiums for motor cycles reflects the unfavourable underwriting results for this class of insurance.
Statistics published annually by An Foras Forbartha show that the fatal accident rate for motor cyclists is almost ten times that for car users, which indicates an extremely high accident rate for motor cycles in general.
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 Naas Town.com - News, Events Guide, Schools, Sport Clubs, Naas Photographs. Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
Today brought news of the death of Frank Cluskey, and a new millionaire in Co.Galway.
Frank Cluskey TD, the former leader of the Labour Party, died this morning at the age of 59.
Frank Cluskey was one of the country's most admired politicians and commanded the respect of his opponents.
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 Michael O'Leary (politician)
In 1973 he became Minister for Labour in the coalition government with Fine Gael.
In 1981 Cluskey resigned as Labour leader and O Leary was elected unanimously to succeed him.
In the 1981-1982 O Leary became Tánaiste and Minister for Energy.
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 John O'Connell - Politics.ie Wiki
He served on the party front bench for many years and was re-elected at each subsequent general election for the party until 1981 topping the poll on almost every occasion.
He was elected to the European Parliament at the 1979 European Election but he resigned this seat in 1981 and contested the 1981 General Election as an Independent, having fallen out with the Labour leadership, who wanted him to change constituencies in favour of Frank Cluskey.
He defeated Cluskey in this election who was then forced to relinquish the Labour leadership.
www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=John_O%27Connell   (467 words)

  
 Labour Youth - About Us - History - The History of Labour Youth
Labour Youth was established in 1979 after the Party leader Frank Cluskey, working with the General Secretary, had set in process the establishment of a youth section in 1978.
At the second annual Labour Youth Conference in November 1980 an emergency motion was passed calling for an end to the death penalty.
The conference took place in Liberty Hall and was addressed by the Party leader Frank Cluskey.
www.labour.ie /youth/about/history.html   (932 words)

  
 Seanad Debates Official Report -24-02-99
But his life's work was committed to Dublin which he made his home over 30 years ago and where he pursued his studies and his career as a lecturer in veterinary medicine in UCD.
Pat stepped into Frank Cluskey's shoes as heir apparent and was quickly elected as local councillor and national politician.
As I said, he was never an establishment man. He learned well from his old friend and mentor, the late Frank Cluskey.
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 Politics.ie :: View topic - Quinns book extracts in Sunday Tribune
and also....is the passage about frank cluskey correct...did ruairi replace him in cabinet as it reads...dont think so as spring became leader after frank lost his seat?
Ruairi Quinn replaced Frank Cluskey in the cabinet in 1983, as a result of Frank Cluskey resigning over Bord Gais.
The Labour leadership timeline went Frank Cluskey 1977-81 (when he lost his seat), Michael O'Leary 1981-1982 (and then defected to FG) and Dick Spring 1982 - 1997.
www.politics.ie /viewtopic.php?t=7813   (1949 words)

  
 Irish American Post
Later that year, they produced Synge's The Well of the Saints and by this time Frank Cluskey, later Lord Mayor of Dublin and later still a Minister in the Dail, was in the production.
The Cluskeys lived right across the road from us and he was my first pal as a young kid.
The last time that I saw Frank was in New York where he was guest of honor at a reception given by the Irish Tourist Board to which I was invited," Black said.
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 Frank Cluskey software downloads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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 An Fear Rua - The GAA Unplugged
The late, lamented Labour Party Leader of the early Eighties, Frank Cluskey, was noted for his acerbic wit…
One time, on being told that Fianna Fáil had appointed former Minister and TD for Laois-Offaly, Paddy Lalor, as their Director of Elections for the 1983 European Elections, Cluskey drily remarked: ‘There’s Confidence for Ya!’
Something similar might be said of the Limerick footballers who take the field on Sunday against Westmeath in their opening League game – with no manager, no selectors and without twelve members of the panel.
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 Former deputy premier of Ireland drowns - Boston.com
After his election to the Dail, he sought to steer Labour away from Ireland's dominant conservative parties but eventually recognized that Labour would need to cooperate with one of them to form a government.
He served as labor minister in a Fine Gael-Labour coalition government from 1973 to 1977, and became Labour leader in 1981 when his longtime rival, Frank Cluskey, lost his own parliamentary seat.
At that time he became the government's deputy leader and energy minister.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/05/12/former_deputy_premier_of_ireland_drowns?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News   (257 words)

  
 List of Irish politicians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Frank Cluskey (1930-1989), Irish Labour Party leader (1977-1981)
Frank Fahey (b.1951), Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources (2000-2002)
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford Irish-born UK politician, cabinet Minister and author.
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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Patrick Hillery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hillery however defended his action by saying that it was important to kill off the story for the good of the presidency, rather than allow the rumour to circulate and be accepted as 'fact' in the absence of a denial.
In that, he was supported by the then Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, whom he consulted before making the decision, and the leaders of the main opposition parties, Garret FitzGerald of Fine Gael and Frank Cluskey[?] of Labour.
Various theories have been speculated about to explain the ludicrous story.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/pa/Patrick_Hillery   (2237 words)

  
 RTE News:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
When Brendan Corish stood down as Labour Party leader after the 1977 election, Mr O'Leary narrowly lost the ensuing leadership election to Frank Cluskey, and in 1979 successfully stood for the European Parliament.
The 1981 general election saw Frank Cluskey lose his Dáil seat.
Mr O'Leary then became leader and Tánaiste in a new Fine Gael-Labour coalition led by Garret FitzGerald.
www.rte.ie /news/2006/0512/print/olearym.html   (431 words)

  
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The 70-year-old reportedly drowned in France yesterday after retiring as a judge last Monday.
Michael O`Leary succeeded Frank Cluskey as Labour leader in the Republic of Ireland when he lost his seat in the 1981 General Election.
He subsequently became Tanaiste in the Fine Gael-Labour coalition that was formed under Garret Fitzgerald.
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Frank Cluskey, LAB - Minister for Trade Commerce and Tourism
December, 1983 - Following Frank Cluskey's resignation John Bruton takes over Cluskey's portfolio of Trde, Commerce and Tourism.
Dick Spring becomes the new Minister for Energy while Liam Kavanagh replaces Spring as Minister for the Environment.
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 Michael O'Leary, former leader of Ireland's Labour Party, drowns in France - Pravda.Ru
He served as labor minister in a Fine Gael-Labour coalition government from 1973 to 1977, when he narrowly lost an election to become Labour leader.
O'Leary ascended to the post in 1981 when his longtime rival, Frank Cluskey, lost his own parliamentary seat, according to the AP.
At that time he led Labour into a second coalition with Fine Gael and became the government's deputy leader and energy minister.
english.pravda.ru /world/12-05-2006/80232-O'Leary-0   (571 words)

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