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Proinsias De Rossa (Francis Ross) was born on 15 May, 1940 in Finglas, Dublin, Ireland, is an Irish politician (b. 1940). Discover Proinsias De Rossa's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

Popular As Francis Ross
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Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 15 May 1940
Birthday 15 May
Birthplace Finglas, Dublin, Ireland
Nationality Ireland

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1940

Proinsias De Rossa (born 15 May 1940) is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as Minister for Social Welfare from 1994 to 1997, Leader of Democratic Left from 1992 to 1999 and Leader of the Workers' Party from 1988 to 1992.

Born as Francis Ross in 1940 in Dublin, he was educated at Marlborough Street National School and Dublin Institute of Technology.

He joined Fianna Éireann at age 12.

1956

Soon after his sixteenth birthday, in May 1956, he joined the Irish Republican Army (IRA), and was politically active in Sinn Féin from an early age.

1957

During the IRA Border Campaign, he was arrested while training other IRA members in Glencree in May 1957.

He served seven months in Mountjoy Prison and was then interned at the Curragh Camp.

1970

He took the Official Sinn Féin side in the 1970 split.

1977

In 1977, he contested his first general election for the party, which that year was renamed Sinn Féin – The Workers' Party (in 1982 the name changed again to the Workers' Party).

1980

The party had been growing steadily in the 1980s, and had its best-ever electoral performance in the general and European elections held in 1989.

The party won 7 Dáil seats with 5% of the vote.

De Rossa himself was elected to the European Parliament for the Dublin constituency, where he topped the poll and the party almost succeeded in replacing Fine Gael as the capital's second-largest party.

He sat as a member of the Group for the European United Left.

However, the campaign resulted in a serious build-up of financial debt by the Workers' Party, which threatened to greatly inhibit the party's ability to ensure it would hold on to its gains.

1982

He was successful on his third attempt, and was elected at the February 1982 general election as a Sinn Féin – The Workers' Party TD for the Dublin North-West constituency.

1988

In 1988, De Rossa succeeded Tomás Mac Giolla as president of the Workers' Party.

1989

He served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 1989 to 1992 and 1999 to 2012.

He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-West constituency from 1989 to 2002.

1992

Long-standing tensions within the Workers' Party, pitting reformers, including most of the party's TDs, against hard-liners centred on former general secretary Seán Garland, came to a head in 1992.

Disagreements on policy issues were exacerbated by the desire of the reformers to ditch the democratic centralist nature of the party structures, and to remove any remaining questions about alleged party links with the Official IRA, a topic which had been the subject of persistent and embarrassing media coverage.

De Rossa called a Special Ardfheis (party conference) to debate changes to the constitution.

The motion failed to get the required two-thirds majority, and subsequently De Rossa led the majority of the parliamentary group and councillors out of a meeting of the party's Central Executive Committee the following Saturday at Wynn's Hotel, splitting the party.

De Rossa and the other former Workers' Party members then established a new political party, provisionally called New Agenda.

At its founding conference in March 1992, it was named Democratic Left and De Rossa was elected party leader.

Later that year he resigned his European Parliament seat, where he was succeeded by Democratic Left general secretary Des Geraghty.

1994

Following the collapse of the Fianna Fáil–Labour Party coalition government in 1994, Fine Gael, Labour and Democratic Left negotiated a government programme for the remaining life of the 27th Dáil, which became known as the Rainbow Coalition.

De Rossa became Minister for Social Welfare.

He initiated Ireland's first national anti-poverty strategy, a commission on the family, and a commission to examine national pension policy.

Also under de Rossa, taxes on unemployment benefits were abolished, while the level of unemployment assistance for those living in the family home was increased substantially.

A One Parent Family Allowance was also introduced, along with a Disability Allowance, Adoptive Benefit, Health and Safety Benefit and Survivor’s Pension.

1997

The 1997 general election resulted in the defeat of the outgoing coalition.

At this point, Democratic Left had accumulated a very significant financial debt.

In light of the co-operation achieved in practically all policy areas during the Rainbow Coalition, the party decided to merge with the Labour Party.

1999

In 1999, De Rossa was elected again at the European Parliament election for the Dublin constituency, sitting on this occasion with the Group of the Party of European Socialists.

2002

He retained his seat until the 2002 general election when he stood down in order to devote more time to his work in the European Parliament.

Labour leader Ruairi Quinn became leader of the unified party; De Rossa took up the symbolic post of party president, which he held until 2002.

De Rossa did not contest his Dáil seat at the 2002 general election.

2003

De Rossa was a member of the European Convention which produced the July 2003 draft European constitution.

De Rossa was chair of the European Parliament's delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council.

2004

He was re-elected at the 2004 European Parliament election.

As a member of the European Parliament, De Rossa took a strong pro-integration approach from a distinctly social democratic perspective, as well as a keen interest in foreign policy and social policy.