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Stephen Coughlan was born on 26 December, 1910 in Limerick, Ireland, is an Irish Labour Party politician. Discover Stephen Coughlan'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?

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Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 26 December 1910
Birthday 26 December
Birthplace Limerick, Ireland
Date of death 20 December, 1994
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Nationality Ireland

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1910

Stephen Coughlan (26 December 1910 – 20 December 1994) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served for sixteen years as Teachta Dála (TD) for the Limerick East constituency.

1928

He moved to Tralee in County Kerry in 1928 to become an insurance clerk.

1930

During the 1930s and 40s he was a member of the Irish Republican Army but in the post-World War 2 period he moved into politics, first with the Republican Clann na Poblachta party and then later with the Labour Party.

After becoming extremely politically powerful in his home of Limerick City, Coughlan was criticised as being an extremely parochial politician who jealously guarded his power base against any challenger, even those in his own party, which resulted in a number of local splits and rivalries that ultimately corroded his support.

Politically and socially conservative, Coughlan was frequently at odds with the rest of the Labour party, while his "colourful" behaviour often drew national attention.

Coughlan was born in Limerick City, to a father Coughlan described as highly religious and to a mother Coughlan recalled as being a staunch Irish Republican.

Coughlan educated at the local Presentation Sisters’ school before later boarding at Blackrock College, Dublin.

1933

Coughlan claimed that during his time in the IRA he was involved in an unsuccessful assassination attempt upon Eoin O'Duffy, leader of the Blueshirts, with whom the IRA was engaged in a bitter feud with around 1933.

It is also claimed that one of Coughlan's final acts in the IRA was an unsuccessful attempt to prevent O'Duffy and his Irish Brigade departing for the Spanish Civil War by ship from Limerick.

1944

In December 1944, Charlie Kerins of Tralee, with whom Coughlan had developed a friendship, was executed for his role as a Chief of Staff of the IRA.

His death prompted Coughlan to turn towards constitutional politics.

Through his Republican and IRA connections, Coughlan became a founding member of Clann na Poblachta, a Republican party founded by Seán MacBride that attempted to overtake Fianna Fáil from the political left.

1945

It was while Coughlan was in Tralee that he was recruited in the Irish Republican Army, with whom he remained a member until 1945.

1950

As Clann na Poblachta declined in support in the late 1950s, Coughlan left them and joined the Labour Party.

1951

Coughlan became chairman of Clann na Poblachta and in 1951 became represented the party when he became a member of Limerick Corporation.

That same year he was named Mayor of Limerick for the first time.

1954

He stood for election as a Clann na Poblachta candidate at the 1954 general election, when he won the second-highest number of first-preference votes, but in later counts missed out on a seat by a margin of just five votes.

A recount still left only a difference of 29 votes.

1957

He stood again for Clann na Poblachta at the 1957 general election, but his vote had fallen significantly and he was again unsuccessful.

1960

As a TD, instead of using the position to discuss national politics in Dáil Eireann, Coughlan's contributions in the 1960s were almost exclusively related to local Limerick issues.

1961

He was elected as a Labour candidate at the 1961 general election, taking his seat in the 17th Dáil.

In doing so Coughlan beat out former Clann party member, veteran campaigner and stalwart of Limerick politics Ted Russell.

As a new member of Labour, Coughlan joined an existing rural republican wing of the party that included the likes of Dan Spring, Sean Treacy and Thomas Kyne.

1963

In 1963, Coughlan helped bring former Clann na Poblachta comrade Noël Browne into the Labour party, an action he supposedly regretted the rest of his life.

In order to make headway in politics, Coughlan more or less had to abandon his previous profession as a local bookmaker and publican in order to campaign.

Once he broke through, however, Coughlan was noted, even by his critics, as a fiercely active politician in tune with his constituents.

Kemmy was a Limerick bricklayer who had self-taught himself about socialism before joining the Labour party in 1963.

Kemmy proved to be an energetic organiser and it didn't take him long to recruit 100 working-class locals as new branch members.

Coughlan, however, was not impressed.

When Kemmy's group organised a press conference to announce some plans they had and to push for more members, Coughlan arrived at the press meeting flanked by a number of former Clann na Poblachta members, barred the doors to journalists, seized all printed materials and effectively shut the conference down.

The incident prompted an internal investigation by Labour, who sent high profile members Brendan Corish and Michael O'Leary.

A public meeting was called between all involved, which saw Kemmy's faction of mainly urban limerick members pitted against Coughlan's mostly rural supporters.

Coughlan attempted to have Kemmy expelled but didn't have enough votes to carry the motion.

Nothing was settled and the acrimony between Coughlan and Kemmy was to continue for years to come.

Coughlan was also known for his considerable thirst for publicity.

1966

It was in 1966 that Coughlan first began to clash with fellow Limerick labour member Jim Kemmy, something that would go on to become a reoccurring feature of both men's careers.

1967

Another recalls that in 1967, following the closure of a meat factory in Limerick, Coughlan showed up at the Dáil at the wrong debate looking dishevelled and began interrupting the proceedings to try to turn the subject to the factory.

Fellow members of the Dáil accused Coughlan of being drunk as well as out of order before he was escorted away by Dáil ushers.

1968

One anecdote recalls that in 1968, upon learning a Limerick mother was due to give birth to triplets, Coughlan rushed over to the hospital to be there.

Coughlan had his picture taken with them before then later in the Dáil demanding that state benefits for triplets be increased.