Tánaiste & Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade

Address:
Office of the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade,
Iveagh House,
80 St. Stephen’s Green,
Dublin 2.

Born:
April 1955

Family:
Married to Carol Hanney. The couple have three children.

Education:
Caltra National School, Caltra, Co Galway;
St Joseph’s College, Garbally, Ballinasloe, Co Galway;
Degree in Psychology from University College Galway now NUI Galway.

Occupation:  

• Tánaiste, Government Minister and Leader of the Labour Party.
• Eamon Gilmore was appointed as Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade on the 9^th March 2011.
• Became Labour Party Leader in September 2007
• Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from January 2005 to June 2007
• Labour Party spokesperson on Environment, Housing and Local Government from 2002 to 2007
• Minister of State at the Department of the Marine between 1994 and 1997.
• He was first elected to the Dáil in 1989 for the constituency of Dun Laoghaire. He has been re-elected at every subsequent general election.
• Formerly trade union organiser.