Labour Party (Ireland) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-28

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00:01:41 1 History
00:01:50 1.1 Foundation
00:03:22 1.2 Early history
00:04:21 1.3 In the Irish Free State
00:06:01 1.4 The split with National Labour and the first coalition governments
00:07:46 1.5 Re-establishment in Northern Ireland
00:09:31 1.6 Under Brendan Corish, 1960–77
00:10:13 1.7 Late 1970s and 1980s: Coalition, internal feuding, electoral decline and regrowth
00:11:57 1.8 1990s: Growing political influence and involvement
00:14:07 1.9 Merger with Democratic Left
00:16:06 1.10 2007 general election and aftermath
00:18:16 1.11 2009 local and European elections
00:19:22 1.12 2011 Government and decline in support
00:22:17 1.12.1 Analysis of budgets
00:23:26 1.12.2 2016 general election
00:23:49 1.13 After 2016
00:24:50 2 Historical archives
00:25:22 3 General election results
00:25:31 4 Structure
00:27:33 4.1 Sections
00:27:58 5 Affiliates
00:28:53 6 Leadership
00:29:01 6.1 Party leader
00:29:14 6.2 Deputy leader
00:29:22 6.3 Seanad leader
00:29:30 7 Elected Representatives
00:29:40 7.1 TDs and Senators
00:30:04 7.2 Front Bench
00:30:13 7.3 Councillors
00:30:32 8 See also



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The Labour Party (Irish: Páirtí an Lucht Oibre) is a social-democratic political party in the Republic of Ireland. Founded in 1912 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, by James Larkin, James Connolly, and William X. O'Brien as the political wing of the Irish Trades Union Congress, it describes itself as a "democratic socialist party" in its constitution. Labour continues to be the political arm of the Irish trade union and labour movement and seeks to represent workers interests in the Dáil and on a local level.
Unlike the other main Irish political parties, Labour did not arise as a faction of the original Sinn Féin party (although it incorporated Democratic Left in 1999, a party that did trace its origins back to Sinn Féin). The party has served as a partner in coalition governments on seven occasions since its formation: six times in coalition either with Fine Gael alone or with Fine Gael and other smaller parties, and once with Fianna Fáil. This gives Labour a cumulative total of nineteen years served as part of a government, the second-longest total of any party in the Republic of Ireland after Fianna Fáil. The current party leader is Brendan Howlin. It is currently the fourth-largest party in Dáil Éireann, with seven seats.
In November 2018, Labour announced that they were considering running candidates again in Northern Ireland, in response to a potential merger between Fianna Fáil and the Social Democratic and Labour Party, with whom Labour have long had fraternal links. The last time Labour had contested elections in the region was in 1973, shortly after the SDLP's formation.The Labour Party is a member of the Progressive Alliance, Socialist International, and Party of European Socialists (PES).