Ruairi Quinn
| Ruairi Quinn | |
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| Minister for Education and Skills | |
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In office 9 March 2011 – 11 July 2014 |
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| Taoiseach | Enda Kenny |
| Preceded by | Mary Coughlan |
| Succeeded by | Jan O'Sullivan |
| Leader of the Labour Party | |
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In office 13 November 1997 – 25 October 2002 |
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| Deputy | Brendan Howlin |
| Preceded by | Dick Spring |
| Succeeded by | Pat Rabbitte |
| Minister for Finance | |
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In office 15 December 1994 – 26 June 1997 |
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| Taoiseach | John Bruton |
| Preceded by | Bertie Ahern |
| Succeeded by | Charlie McCreevy |
| Minister for Enterprise and Employment | |
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In office 12 January 1993 – 17 November 1994 |
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| Taoiseach | Albert Reynolds |
| Preceded by | Pádraig Flynn |
| Succeeded by | Charlie McCreevy |
| Minister for the Public Service | |
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In office 14 February 1986 – 20 January 1987 |
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| Taoiseach | Garret FitzGerald |
| Preceded by | John Boland |
| Succeeded by | John Bruton |
| Minister for Labour | |
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In office 13 December 1983 – 20 January 1987 |
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| Taoiseach | Garret FitzGerald |
| Preceded by | Liam Kavanagh |
| Succeeded by | Gemma Hussey |
| Minister of State for Urban Affairs and Housing | |
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In office 16 December 1982 – 13 December 1983 |
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| Taoiseach | Garret FitzGerald |
| Preceded by | Niall Andrews |
| Succeeded by | Fergus O'Brien |
| Teachta Dála | |
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In office February 1982 – February 2016 |
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In office June 1977 – June 1981 |
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| Constituency | Dublin South-East |
| Senator | |
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In office 22 October 1981 – 18 February 1982 |
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| Constituency | Industrial and Commercial Panel |
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In office 11 July 1976 – 16 June 1977 |
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| Constituency | Nominated by the Taoiseach |
| Personal details | |
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2 April 1946 Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Labour Party |
| Spouse(s) | Liz Allman |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | |
| Website | Official website |
Ruairi Quinn (born 2 April 1946) is a former Irish Labour Party politician. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-East constituency. He was Minister for Finance from 1994 to 1997, leader of the Labour Party from 1997 to 2002, and Minister for Education and Skills from 2011 to 2014.
Quinn was born on 2 April 1946. His family were prominent republicans in South Down in the 1920s, taking an active part in the IRA during the War of Independence and on the anti-Treaty side during the Civil War. The Quinns were prosperous merchants in Newry, County Down, but were forced to move south to Dublin in the 1930s where Quinn's father built a successful business career.
Quinn was educated at St Michael's College, Dublin and Blackrock College where he was academically successful and an outstanding athlete and a member of the Senior Cup rugby team. From an early age, he was interested in art and won the all-Ireland Texaco Children's Art competition. This led him to study architecture at University College Dublin (UCD) in 1964 and later at the School of Ekistics in Athens.
In 1965, Quinn joined the Labour Party working for Michael O'Leary's successful campaign in Dublin North-Central. In the following years, Quinn was a leading student radical in UCD demanding reform of the University's structures and the old fashioned architectural course that then prevailed. He travelled in Europe and became a europhile which was to be a defining characteristic of his political career. He qualified as an architect in 1969 and married for the first time that year before embarking on studies in Athens. He and his first wife had a son and a daughter. He married again in 1990 and has a son with his second wife, Liz Allman whose family came from Milltown, County Kerry. He became employed as an architect with Dublin Corporation in 1971.
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