- Liz McManus
(Elizabeth) Liz McManus (born 23 March 1947) is an Irish Labour Party politician. She was the deputy leader of the Labour Party and Party Spokesperson for Health. Following the resignation of
Pat Rabbitte on 23 August 2007, she was acting leader of the Labour Party until September 2007 but chose not to stand for re-election asdeputy leader when a deputy leadership election was held.Joan Burton replaced her asdeputy leader .Liz McManus was born in 1947 in
Montreal ,Canada and is currently a TD for Wicklow. She studiedArchitecture at University College Dublin. She first ran for political office in 1979 when she was elected to Bray Urban District Council for the Sinn Féin the Workers Party. Later, she was elected to Wicklow County Council. She helped establish a women's refuge inBray in 1978 and was its convenor until 1991.McManus was first elected to
Dáil Éireann at the 1992 general election. She was then a member of the Democratic Left party. She has retained her seat in every subsequent election. Between 1994 and 1997 the Democratic Left formed a government withFine Gael and the Labour Party and McManus became Minister of State for Housing & Urban Renewal. During this period she was also a member of the Northern Ireland Forum for Peace & Reconciliation.In 1999 the Democratic Left merged with the Labour Party. In 2002 Liz McManus was elected the deputy leader of the Labour Party. Another former Democratic Left TD
Pat Rabbitte , became leader of the party. McManus is currently also the Labour Party Spokesperson for Health.As well as being a politician McManus is an accomplished writer. She won the Hennessy, Listowel and Irish Pen awards in fiction. Her first novel "Acts of Subversion" was nominated for the Aer Lingus/Irish Times Literature Prize. McManus was also a weekly columnist with the
Sunday Tribune (1986–1992). She is married to Dr. John McManus and has four children.External links
* [http://www.labour.ie/lizmcmanus/ Liz McManus's website]
* [http://lizmcmanus.blogspot.com/ Liz McManus's blog]
* [http://www.tallgirlshorts.net/marymary/liz.html Lengthy interview with Liz McManus]
* [http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/Mc/McManus,L/life.htm Biography on Princess Grace Irish Library]Navboxes
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