Pat Gallagher (Labour politician)
Pat Gallagher | |
|---|---|
| Senator | |
| In office 17 September 1997 – 24 August 1999[1] | |
| Constituency | Industrial and Commercial Panel |
| Teachta Dála | |
| In office November 1992 – June 1997 | |
| Constituency | Laois–Offaly |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 March 1963 County Offaly, Ireland |
| Party | Labour Party |
Pat Gallagher (born 29 March 1963) is an Irish local government executive and a former Labour Party politician. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for Laois–Offaly from 1992 to 1997.[2]
Gallagher's job before politics was as a workshop manager. He contested the 1989 general election in Laois–Offaly, finishing 8th of 9 candidates for 5 seats. In the 1991 county council elections he was elected to Offaly County Council and in the 1994 municipal elections to the urban district council of Tullamore. He was elected to Dáil Éireann for Laois–Offaly during the swing to Labour at the 1992 general election.
Like many Labour TDs elected in 1992, he lost his seat at the 1997 general election. Gallagher was then elected to the 21st Seanad, on the Industrial and Commercial Panel, and served as whip of the Labour senators. He was re-elected to both the county council and urban district council at the 1999 local elections, topping the poll in both.[3]
On 24 August 1999 Gallagher resigned his Seanad, county council, and urban district council seats to become Director of Community and Enterprise of Westmeath County Council, ascribing his surprise decision to the pressure of a family with two small children.[1] He was county manager (a position now called chief executive) for Galway County Council from 2004 to 2007, and for Offaly County Council from 2007 to 2013. In early 2014, he was appointed chief executive of Westmeath County Council.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Brennock, Mark (25 August 1999). "Labour senator Pat Gallagher resigns to take up senior council position". The Irish Times. p. 8. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
- ↑ "Pat Gallagher". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
- ↑ "Pat Gallagher". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
- ↑ "Chief Executive and Directors". Westmeath County Council. Retrieved 6 June 2023.