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Shane Peter Nathaniel Ross (born 11 July 1949) is an independent Irish politician and former business editor of the ''Sunday Independent''. He was the longest-serving member of Seanad Éireann (representing the University of Dublin constituency), until he was elected to Dáil Éireann for the Dublin South constituency at the 2011 general election.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mr. Shane Ross )〕 He is a member of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee. ==Early life and career== Born in Dublin in 1949, he is the son of former Senator and prominent member of the legal fraternity, John N. Ross, and the noted gardener and writer Ruth Isabel Sherrington. He was schooled at St Stephen's School, Dundrum, and Rugby School, before attending Trinity College, Dublin, from where he graduated with a degree in history and political science in 1971.〔http://www.shaneross.ie/about-shane/〕 A stockbroker with NCB, Ross was Business Editor of the ''Sunday Independent'', Ireland's biggest-selling weekend broadsheet until his election to the Dáil in 2011, when he resigned the post. He is married to Ruth Buchanan, a former presenter and journalist with RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster. His son-in-law is Nick Webb, who succeeded him as Business Editor of the Sunday Independent. He was first elected to the Seanad in 1981 as an independent candidate for the University of Dublin constituency, and was re-elected on nine occasions since,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Shane Ross )〕 becoming the longest-serving member of the house. He stood unsuccessfully as an independent candidate at the 1984 European Parliament election for the Dublin constituency. At the 1991 local elections, he was elected as a Fine Gael candidate to Wicklow County Council for the Bray electoral area, and served until 1999.〔 He stood as a candidate for the party in the Wicklow constituency at the 1992 general election but did not gain a seat, remaining instead in the Seanad where he once again sat as an independent after the 1997 election. He is one of Ireland's most visible business commentators, promoting free enterprise, small government and low taxes and is widely identified as one of the most visible champions of laissez-faire capitalism in Irish politics, praising Irish Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy as a "brilliant minister in the boom years" and lauded McCreevy's controversial tax individualization as "visionary". He profited from the boom in Irish land prices, selling his home at Carrickmines to a developer in 2004 for an estimated €4 million to €4.5 million an acre, however he subsequently bought a house in Enniskerry for €6.2 million in 2005. Despite labeling himself as one of Ireland's foremost business commentators his record as a stock picker is mixed, as he noted himself ''"my record when a stockbroker was so bad that Dermot Desmond rightly gave me my P45. ...if any readers are beginning to take me seriously, remember it was I who advised people to sell First Active Shares when they went public and subsequently quadrupled and it was I who told innocent investors not to touch Ryanair shares with a barge pole at the flotation. They rocketed."''.〔http://www.shaneross.ie/were-not-on-obamas-radar/〕 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「Shane Ross」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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