Liz McManus | |
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 McManus,c. 2002 | |
| Deputy leader of the Labour Party | |
| In office 25 October 2002 – 4 October 2007 | |
| Leader | Pat Rabbitte |
| Preceded by | Brendan Howlin |
| Succeeded by | Joan Burton |
| Minister of State | |
| 1994–1997 | Environment |
| Teachta Dála | |
| In office November 1992 – February 2011 | |
| Constituency | Wicklow |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1947-03-23)23 March 1947 (age 78) |
| Political party | Labour Party (since 1999) |
| Other political affiliations |
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| Spouse | [1] |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin |
| Website | Official website |
Liz McManus (born 23 March 1947) is an Irish formerLabour Party politician who served asDeputy leader of the Labour Party from 2002 to 2007 andMinister of State at the Department of the Environment from 1994 to 1997. She served as aTeachta Dála (TD) for theWicklow constituency from 1992 to 2011.[2]
McManus was born in 1947 inMontreal,Quebec,Canada.[3] She studiedArchitecture atUniversity College Dublin, where she shared a drawing desk withRuairi Quinn. McManus is an accomplished writer. She has won the Hennessy, Listowel andIrish PEN awards in fiction. Her first novelActs of Subversion was nominated for theAer Lingus/Irish Times Literature Prize. McManus was also a weekly columnist with theSunday Tribune from 1986 until 1992.
She first ran for political office in 1979, when she was elected toBray Urban District Council forSinn Féin the Workers' Party. In 1985 she was elected toWicklow County Council. She helped establish a women's refuge inBray in 1978 and was its convenor until 1991.[3]
McManus was first elected toDáil Éireann at the1992 general election, as a member ofDemocratic Left.[3] She retained her seat in every subsequent election until her retirement in 2011.[4] In 1994, Democratic Left formed a government withFine Gael and theLabour Party, and McManus was appointed asMinister of State at the Department of the Environment, with responsibility for Housing and Urban Renewal, serving until the coalition lost office in 1997. During this period she was also a member of the Northern Ireland Forum for Peace and Reconciliation.
In 1999, Democratic Left merged with the Labour Party, and in 2002 McManus was elected deputy leader of the Labour Party.[3] Another former Democratic Left TD,Pat Rabbitte, became leader of the party. She also became the Labour Party Spokesperson on Health, serving in both positions until 2007.
Following the resignation ofPat Rabbitte on 23 August 2007, she was acting leader of the Labour Party until September 2007, but chose not to stand for re-election as deputy leader, when a deputy leadership election was held.Joan Burton replaced her as deputy leader. She was party spokesperson onCommunications, Energy and Natural Resources from 2007 to 2011.
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She retired from politics at the2011 general election, which she did not contest.[5]
She was formerly married to John McManus; the couple had four children. They publicly separated in 2006.[6] John McManus, a physician in general practice, was a Labour member of Bray Town Council from 1999 to 2009.
By February 2015 McManus had been with her new partner, Sean, also active in the Labour Party, for ten years. McManus stated the pair met three weeks after her split from her first husband.[1]
The daughter of a civil servant, Liz was born in Canada and spent much of her early life travelling around the world. 'I was born in Montreal,' she said.
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