Shane Ross TD |
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Ross at his election announcement, 2011
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Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport | |
Assumed office 6 May 2016 |
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Taoiseach | Enda Kenny |
Preceded by | Paschal Donohoe |
Teachta Dála | |
Assumed office February 2016 |
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Constituency | Dublin Rathdown |
Teachta Dála | |
In office February 2011 – February 2016 |
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Constituency | Dublin South |
Senator | |
In office 13 October 1981 – 25 February 2011 |
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Constituency | University of Dublin |
Personal details | |
Born |
Shane Peter Nathaniel Ross 11 July 1949 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 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.