• Oireachtas. The 28th Dáil was dissolved by President Mary McAleese on 25 April 2002, at the request of the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern. The 28th Dáil lasted 1,765...
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  • Taoiseach and formed a new government. "Nomination of Taoiseach – Dáil Éireann (28th Dáil)". Houses of the Oireachtas. 26 June 1997. Archived from the original...
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  • Higgins was elected to Dáil Éireann for the first time. At the 2002 general election, Joe Higgins retained his Dublin West seat in Dáil Éireann. Clare Daly...
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    Éamon Ó Cuív (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    "Resignation of Minister of State: Announcement by Taoiseach – Dáil Éireann (27th Dáil) – Vol. 530 No. 6". Houses of the Oireachtas. 20 February 2002...
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  • The 29th Dáil was elected at the 2002 general election on 17 May 2002 and met on 6 June 2002. The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives...
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    John McGuinness (politician) (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    29th Dáil and a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committees for European Affairs, Enterprise and Small Business, Justice, and Women's Rights in the 28th Dáil...
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    1997 Irish general election (category 28th Dáil)
    1997 Irish general election to the 28th Dáil was held on Friday, 6 June, following the dissolution of the 27th Dáil on 15 May by President Mary Robinson...
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    David Andrews (politician) (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    "Appointment of Members of Government and Ministers of State – Dáil Éireann (28th Dáil)". Houses of the Oireachtas. 9 July 1997. Archived from the original...
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    Róisín Shortall (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    for the local electoral area of Drumcondra. Shortall was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1992 general election, when the Labour Party won a record...
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    2002 Irish general election (category 29th Dáil)
    general election to the 29th Dáil was held on Friday, 17 May, just over three weeks after the dissolution of the 28th Dáil on Thursday, 25 April by President...
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    Michael Smith (Irish politician) (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    "Appointment of Members of Government and Ministers of State – Dáil Éireann (28th Dáil)". Houses of the Oireachtas. 9 July 1997. Archived from the original...
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    Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    victory in 1997 made him the first member of Sinn Féin to be elected to the Dáil since 1957, and the first to actually take their seat since 1922. His election...
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    Rory O'Hanlon (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 2002 to 2007, Leas-Cheann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1997 to 2002, Minister for the...
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    Michael D. Higgins (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    13th Seanad in 1973 by Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1981 general election as a Labour Party TD. He was re-elected...
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  • Bernard Allen (Irish politician) (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    Foreign Affairs and chairman of the Dáil sub-committee on European Affairs. From 2007 to 2011, he was chairman of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee. Allen...
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    Proinsias De Rossa (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    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...
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  • Ivan Yates (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    1981, Yates was the youngest member of the 22nd Dáil and is also the fifth-youngest ever member of Dáil Éireann at the age of 21. He became involved in...
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    Séamus Brennan (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    party was appointed. At the 1981 general election, Brennan was elected to Dáil Éireann for the Dublin South constituency and was returned at every subsequent...
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    Tom Kitt (politician) (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    Government and Ministers of State: Announcement by Taoiseach – Dáil Éireann (26th Dáil) – Vol. 415 No. 7". Houses of the Oireachtas. 13 February 1992...
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    Mary Hanafin (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    Rathmines local electoral area, but she unsuccessfully sought election to Dáil Éireann at the 1989 general election, standing in the Dublin South-East constituency...
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  • Síle de Valera (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    Cuív, a TD who succeeded her as a minister. De Valera was first elected to Dáil Éireann in the Fianna Fáil landslide victory at the 1977 general election...
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  • Frank Fahey (politician) (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    lost his Dáil seat at the 1992 general election and was appointed to Seanad Éireann, serving in the 20th Seanad until 1997. He returned to the Dáil at the...
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    The Dáil took its current form when the 1937 Constitution was adopted, but it maintains continuity with the First Dáil established in 1919. The Dáil has...
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    John Bruton (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    to Dáil Éireann in the 1969 general election, as a Fine Gael TD for Meath. At the age of 22, he was one of the youngest ever members of the Dáil at that...
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    Willie O'Dea (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    stood for election to Dáil Éireann in Limerick East at the 1981 general election, but was unsuccessful. He was elected to the Dáil on his second attempt...
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    Nora Owen (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    That year she became a member of the executive of Trócaire. She returned to Dáil Éireann following the 1989 general election. In 1993, she became Deputy leader...
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  • Beverley Flynn (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    commissioner and was won by Michael Ring of Fine Gael. She was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1997 general election, as a Fianna Fáil TD for the Mayo constituency...
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    Richard Bruton (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    Appointment of Ministers of State: Announcement by the Taoiseach – Dáil Éireann (24th Dáil)". Houses of the Oireachtas. 22 October 1986. Archived from the...
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  • Liam Lawlor (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    to Dublin County Council. At the 1977 general election he was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin County West constituency...
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    Simon Coveney (category Members of the 28th Dáil)
    as an agriculture adviser and farm manager. Coveney was elected to the 28th Dáil as a Fine Gael candidate for Cork South-Central in a by-election, caused...
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