Green Party (Ireland) - Green Party (Ireland) Politicians, Leaders of the Green Party (Ireland), Richard Greene, Gary Fitzgerald, John Gormley (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Green Party (Ireland) Politicians, Leaders of the Green Party (Ireland), Richard Greene, Gary Fitzgerald, John Gormley, Paul Gogarty, Patricia Mckenna, Dirdre de Brca, Trevor Sargent, Eamon Ryan, Dan Boyle, Ciarn Cuffe, Mary White, Niall Brolchin, Nessa Childers, Young Greens, Mark Dearey, Bronwen Maher, David Healy, Roger Garland, J. J. Power, Nuala Ahern, Christopher Fettes. Excerpt: The Green Party (Irish: lit. Green Alliance) is a green political party in Ireland. It was founded as the Ecology Party of Ireland in 1981 by Dublin teacher Christopher Fettes. The party became the Green Alliance in 1983 and in 1987 was renamed to its current title. Green Party candidates have been elected to all levels of government; local, Dil and European Parliament, and in 2007 the party gained its first representation in the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Northern Ireland party having become a region of the Irish Green Party in the previous year. On 14 June 2007, following negotiations that agreed on a programme for government, the Green Party entered into government with Fianna Fil and the Progressive Democrats (the latter of which has since disbanded but its two TDs remain part of the government). The party's first electoral outing was when 7 candidates contested the November 1982 general election under the Ecology Party banner, winning 0.2% of the vote. Following a name-change, they contested the 1984 European Parliament elections, with their party founder winning 1.9% in the Dublin constituency. The following year they won their first election when Marcus Counihan was elected to Killarney Urban District Council during the 1985 Local Elections. The party nationally ran 34 candidates and won 0.6% of the vote. The party continued to struggle unt... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=15081