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Shane Ross

Shane Ross
TD
Shane Ross elected 2011.jpg
Ross at his election announcement, 2011
Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport
Assumed office
6 May 2016
Taoiseach Enda Kenny
Preceded by Paschal Donohoe
Teachta Dála
Assumed office
February 2016
Constituency Dublin Rathdown
Teachta Dála
In office
February 2011 – February 2016
Constituency Dublin South
Senator
In office
13 October 1981 – 25 February 2011
Constituency University of Dublin
Personal details
Born Shane Peter Nathaniel Ross
(1949-07-11) 11 July 1949 (age 67)
Dublin, Ireland
Nationality Irish
Political party Independent
Other political
affiliations
Fine Gael (until 1997)
Spouse(s) Ruth Buchanan
Children 2
Education St. Stephen's School, Dundrum
Alma mater
Religion Church of Ireland
Website www.shane-ross.ie

Shane Peter Nathaniel Ross (born 11 July 1949) is an Irish Independent politician who has served as Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport since May 2016. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) since 2011, currently for the Dublin Rathdown constituency. He was a Senator for the University of Dublin from 1981 to 2011.

He was a former business editor of the Sunday Independent. A former Fine Gael local councillor (on Wicklow County Council) and a former Fine Gael general election candidate in the Wicklow constituency. Ross was the longest-serving member of Seanad Éireann (representing the University of Dublin constituency), until he was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South constituency at the 2011 general election. In the 31st Dáil, he was a member of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee and founded the Independent Alliance. He was re-elected to the 32nd Dáil and appointed by Enda Kenny as Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in 2016.


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