Dan Spring was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry North constituency from 1943 to 1981. He was a Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Local Government from 1956 to 1957. He was the father of Dick Spring, who led the Labour Party from 1982 to 1997.
Spring, c. 1958
The Labour Party is a centre-left and social-democratic political party in the Republic of Ireland. Founded on 28 May 1912 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, by James Connolly, James Larkin, and William O'Brien as the political wing of the Irish Trades Union Congress, it describes itself as a "democratic socialist party" in its constitution.
James Connolly
William O'Brien
In 1944 James Everett led a faction out of Labour and into a short-lived anti-communist splinter party until they reunited in 1950
The ascendancy of Mary Robinson to the Presidency of Ireland was heralded as a great victory for the Labour party