Phil Prendergast
| Phil Prendergast | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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In office 1 April 2011 – 16 May 2014 |
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| Constituency | South |
| Leader of the Labour Party in the Seanad | |
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In office 8 March 2011 – 25 May 2011 |
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| Leader | Eamon Gilmore |
| Preceded by | Alex White |
| Succeeded by | Ivana Bacik |
| Senator | |
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In office 24 July 2007 – 1 April 2011 |
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| Constituency | Labour Panel |
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| Born |
Philomena Foley 20 September 1959 Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Labour Party |
| Spouse(s) | Ray Prendergast |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University College Cork |
Philomena Prendergast (née Foley; born 20 September 1959) is a former Irish Labour Party politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South constituency from 2011 to 2014, Leader of the Labour Party in the Seanad in 2011 and a Senator for the Labour Panel from 2007 to 2011.
Phil Foley was born in County Kilkenny. She was a midwife at South Tipperary General Hospital for more than 20 years, having trained in Waterford Regional Hospital. She is married to Ray Prendergast, a psychiatric nurse, and has two children.
She is a former local branch officer with the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, on the Executive Board of which she served in 1994.
Prendergast served on Clonmel Borough Council and South Tipperary County Council from 1999 to 2007, where she was elected originally as a member of the Workers and Unemployed Action Group (WUAG).
She first contested an election to Dáil Eireann in June 2001, when she stood on behalf of the WUAG in the Tipperary South by-election that followed the death of Theresa Ahearn; she polled 7,897 first preference votes. In June 2005, she left the WUAG to join the Labour Party. She was a Labour candidate at the 2007 general election in the Tipperary South constituency; she was unsuccessful, but was subsequently elected to the Seanad Eireann by the Labour Panel.
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