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Michael Enright (1952 – 16 October 1997)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mr. Michael Enright )〕 was a Democratic Left politician from County Wexford in Ireland. He was a member of Wexford Corporation and served briefly as a senator in 1997. Born in Ennis, County Clare, Enright was a teacher at Kilmuckridge Vocational School in County Wexford. An officer of Wexford Council of Trade Unions, he joined the Labour Party in 1973, and in the 1979 local elections he stood as a candidate for the Socialist Labour Party. He joined the Workers' Party in 1982 and was elected to Wexford Corporation in 1985; he remained a councillor until his death 12 years later. At the 1987 and 1989 general elections, he stood unsuccessfully as a Workers' Party candidate in the Wexford constituency, and also failed to win a seat in the European Parliament when he stood in the Leinster constituency at the 1989 European election.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Michael Enright's electoral history )〕 When the Workers' Party split in 1992, he joined the breakaway Democratic Left, later becoming a members of the party's executive committee. He contested the 1992 and 1997 general elections as Democratic Left candidate, but again failed to win a seat.〔 In June 1997, Enright was nominated by the Taoiseach, John Bruton as member of the outgoing 20th Seanad, serving until the elections in August for the 21st Seanad. He had been a member of Teastas, the Irish National Certification Authority, since it was set up in 1995. He died aged 45 on 16 October 1997. He was returning from a Teastas meeting in Dublin when his car was involved in a head-on-collision near Arklow with a vehicle traveling at high speeds without lights. Tributes were paid to him in both the Dáil〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Official Report (Dáil Éireann) Volume 481, 16 October 1997, Order of Business )〕 and the Seanad.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Official Report (Seanad Éireann), Volume 152, 16 October 1997, Death of Former Member: Expression of Sympathy )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Enright (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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