Pat Rabbitte
Videos
Pat Rabbitte is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources from 2011 to 2014, Leader of the Labour Party from 2002 to 2007 and a Mi
Rabbitte, c. 2002
Rabbitte in 2015
Democratic Left (Ireland)
Videos
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
Pat Rabbitte
…TD) for Dublin South-West at the 1989 election. He retained his seat at every subsequent election until his retirement in 2016—for the first two as a Democratic Left TD, and for subsequent ones representing the Labour Party. After Tomás Mac Giolla's retirement as President of the WP in 1988, Rabbitte was seen as one…
Proinsias de Rossa led his faction out of the Workers' Party and into what became Democratic Left
Eamon Gilmore