Jim Higgins is an Irish former Fine Gael politician. He served as a member of Seanad Éireann, Dáil Éireann, and was a European People's Party Member of the European Parliament for the North-West const
Higgins in 2014
Democratic Left (Ireland)
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Democratic Left was a left-wing political party in Ireland between 1992 and 1999. It came into being after a split in the Workers' Party, and after seven years in existence it was incorporated into th
Jim Higgins (Irish politician)
…Teachta Dála (TD) for Mayo East. He was re-elected to the Dáil in 1989, 1992 and 1997. In 1994 the Rainbow Coalition of Fine Gael, Labour Party and Democratic Left came to power and Higgins was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Finance. The following year he became Minister of State at the…
Proinsias de Rossa led his faction out of the Workers' Party and into what became Democratic Left
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