Emmet Stagg was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as Labour Party Chief Whip from 2007 to 2016, and as a Minister of State from January 1993 to November 1994 and from December 1994 to June 1997. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1987 to 2016.
Stagg, circa 2002
Emmet Stagg with Eamon Gilmore
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