Eamon Gilmore

Eamon Gilmore is an Irish Labour Party politician. In the Government of Ireland, he held the offices of Tnaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade from March 2011 until July 2014. He was the Leader of the Labour Party from September 2007 to July 2014. He has represented the constituency of Dn Laoghaire in Dil ireann since 1989, firstly as a member of the Workers Party of Ireland, later as a member of Democratic Left, then as a member of the Labour Party. He served as a Minister of State at the Department of the Marine from 1994 until 1997 during the 24th Government of Ireland.

Gilmore was born in Caltra, County Galway, in 1955 into a small farming family. When he wasmonths old his father died leaving his mother to run the mixed farm and raise Gilmore and his younger brother John.

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