40-872: Nally is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Derek Nally (born 1936), Irish politician; unsuccessful candidate for president in 1997 Donald Nally (born 1960), American conductor and opera chorus master Edward Julian Nally (1859–1953), American radio businessman; first president of RCA Edward Nally (solicitor) (born 1956), English solicitor and academic Eric Sean Nally , American rock singer Padraig Nally , Irish farmer; convicted then exonerated of manslaughter Pat Nally (1857–1897), Irish republican and sportsman Patrick Nally (born 1947), British sports marketing businessman T.H. Nally , Irish playwright, brother of Pat Nally Will Nally (1914–1965), British politician, MP from Wolverhampton [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
80-517: A policy of co-location of private hospitals on public hospital grounds and is seen as sympathetic to the privatisation of health insurance . However, they opposed their coalition partner's plans to privatise airports company Aer Rianta on the grounds that a private monopoly would be worse than a public monopoly. The party was a strong supporter of low taxation. As the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) stated in 2002: "On balance, budgets over
120-642: A scandal broke surrounding Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) Brian Lenihan Snr 's role in pressuring President Patrick Hillery not to allow then-Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald to dissolve the Dáil in 1982. The Progressive Democrats gave Haughey an ultimatum—unless Lenihan was removed from cabinet, they would pull out of the coalition and support a no-confidence motion in the government. Haughey tried to force Lenihan to resign, and sacked him when he refused. A year later, after former Justice Minister Seán Doherty claimed that Haughey had authorised tapping journalists' phones in
160-601: A special conference in Mullingar voted to disband the party, which was formally dissolved on 20 November 2009. The two Progressive Democrats elected to the 30th Dáil, Harney and Noel Grealish , continued to support the government as independent TDs. Harney continued to serve as Minister for Health and Children until January 2011. The party was founded in 1985 by Desmond O'Malley , a former senior minister in Fianna Fáil governments under Jack Lynch and Charles Haughey . O'Malley
200-496: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Derek Nally Mary Robinson Mary McAleese Fianna Fáil The 1997 Irish presidential election was held on Thursday, 30 October 1997. It was the eleventh presidential election to be held in Ireland, and only the sixth to be contested by more than one candidate. It was held ahead of schedule when incumbent Mary Robinson resigned to assume her new appointment as
240-479: The 1987 general election the new party won 14 seats and 11.9% of the vote, becoming the third-largest party in the 25th Dáil . The Progressive Democrats formed the second-largest opposition party under difficult circumstances. The minority Fianna Fáil government introduced some of the economic reforms that the Progressive Democrats had recommended. Fianna Fáil was however largely supported by Fine Gael where
280-505: The 1987 general election , winning 14 seats in Dáil Éireann and capturing almost 12 per cent of the popular vote to temporarily surpass the Labour Party as Ireland's third-largest political party. Although the Progressive Democrats never again won more than 10 seats in the Dáil, it formed coalition governments with Fianna Fáil during the 26th Dáil (1989–1992), the 28th Dáil (1997–2002),
320-527: The 2009 local elections . Some were elected as Fine Gael candidates, some as Fianna Fáil and others as independents. At the 2011 general election 11 former Progressive Democrats members stood as candidates for the Dáil in a country-wide spread of constituencies. Three former PD members were elected: Mary Mitchell O'Connor (PD Councillor 2004–2008) was elected in Dún Laoghaire for Fine Gael, Ciarán Cannon (PD Senator 2007–2009 / party leader 2008–2009)
360-400: The 29th Dáil (2002–2007) and the 30th Dail (2007–2009). These successive years as the government's junior coalition partner gave the party an influence on Irish politics and economics disproportionate to its small size. The party was credited with shaping the low-tax, pro-business environment that contributed to Ireland's Celtic Tiger economic boom during the 1990s and 2000s; however, it
400-527: The Dublin South-Central constituency for the PDs in 1992, 1994 and 1997. The Progressive Democrats were described as conservative liberals , liberal , and classical liberal . The party's economic policies were based on neoliberalism . They supported the freedom of private enterprise and the lowering of taxes. They generally favoured privatisation; for example, they supported the privatisation of
440-513: The Green Party in the 30th Dáil . The party never recovered from this electoral collapse. On 8 November 2008, with all parliamentary members (two TDs and two Senators) and founder Desmond O'Malley united in the opinion that the party was no longer politically viable, delegates to a special conference in Mullingar voted by 201 votes to 161 to bring the Progressive Democrats to an end. In January 2009
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#1732854855347480-525: The Green Party . At 42 years of age, she was and is the youngest person to stand in an Irish presidential election . Dana Rosemary Scallon received the nominations of five county councils: Donegal , Kerry , Longford , North Tipperary and Wicklow . Scallon was a singer, the winner of the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest , and a family values campaigner. She was the first candidate in any Irish presidential election to have been nominated by local authorities, rather than by Oireachtas members. Derek Nally
520-559: The Labour Party to legislate for civil unions in the previous Dáil had been forestalled by PD Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Michael McDowell, due to his insistence that non-sex relationships be recognised too. The Progressive Democrats again voted down the same bill in the 29th Dáil . Both Progressive Democrats and other commentators have suggested that the party had a greater influence on government policy since 1997 than might be expected from its size. This belief appears to have some basis – as of September 2004
560-631: The PDs , was a conservative liberal political party in Ireland . The party's history spanned 24 years, from its formation in 1985 to its dissolution in 2009. Launched on 21 December 1985 by Desmond O'Malley and other politicians who had split from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael , the Progressive Democrats took liberal positions on divorce , contraception and other social issues. The party also supported economic liberalisation , advocating measures such as lower taxation , fiscal conservatism , privatisation and welfare reform . It enjoyed an impressive début at
600-546: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights . The Minister for the Environment and Local Government made the order opening nominations on 15 September, with 30 September as the deadline for nominations. Five people received nominations, the highest number contesting to that point, and more remarkably, four of the five were women. Mary McAleese was selected by Fianna Fáil as their candidate for
640-475: The surname Nally . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nally&oldid=1177070400 " Categories : Surnames English-language surnames Hidden categories: Use dmy dates from April 2022 Articles with short description Short description
680-467: The " Celtic Tiger " economy. Dermot McAleese, emeritus professor of economics at Trinity College Dublin , says that the emergence of the Progressive Democrats in 1985 may have had a more positive influence on the economy than some recognise. He argues the Irish low-tax, pro-business economy is based in large part on Progressive Democrat policies. "They proved that there was a constituency for this, and they gave
720-697: The 1980s, the PDs told Haughey that they would tear up the coalition agreement if he remained as Taoiseach. With O'Malley's approval, Haughey stood down as Taoiseach in February 1992. He was replaced by Albert Reynolds , and O'Malley retained his cabinet post. After the collapse of Reynolds' first administration later in 1992, O'Malley retired from the leadership of the party. Following the 1992 general election, John Dardis (Agricultural Panel) and Cathy Honan (Industrial and Commercial Panel) were elected to Seanad Éireann as part of an election pact with their politically polar opposites Democratic Left . Mary Harney became
760-405: The deputy leader of the party, Nora Owen . She defeated colleague Avril Doyle for the party nomination in a very close contest. Banotti, who was an MEP at the time, was the only serving politician among the five presidential candidates. Adi Roche , who had founded Chernobyl Children International in 1991, was nominated by the Labour Party . Roche was later endorsed by Democratic Left and
800-402: The economy was concerned, and so the Progressive Democrats had difficulty being effective in opposition. After the 1989 general election , the party had only six seats but formed a coalition government with Fianna Fáil, with Charles Haughey as Taoiseach , which was the first time Fianna Fáil entered coalition. PD leader Desmond O'Malley served as Minister for Industry and Commerce . In 1990,
840-408: The intellectual power to it." The party leaders rejected the idea that they are ruled by ideology alone. Former party leader Michael McDowell has said that he sees liberalism as not being on the left-right spectrum as it is a mix of the ideals of both. Mary Harney, on becoming health minister said "I don't get my politics from any ideology, I get it from my experience and common sense". Yet Harney
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#1732854855347880-671: The introduction of contraception. At the party's launch in December 1985, O'Malley was joined by Mary Harney , who had lost the Fianna Fáil parliamentary whip, and by former Fine Gael activist Michael McDowell . In the weeks after its launch, Fianna Fáil TDs Bobby Molloy and Pearse Wyse , and Fine Gael TD Michael Keating also joined the party. The defectors were dissatisfied with the policies of existing parties, which they viewed as being insufficiently liberal, both economically and on social issues such as divorce and contraception. In Ireland in 1985, when personal income above £ 7,300 per annum
920-411: The new leader after a bitter electoral contest with Pat Cox who later left the party. Harney was the first woman to lead any of the major Irish political parties. Harney served as Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) from May 1997 until September 2006 after a return to government in coalition with Fianna Fáil. In the 2002 general election the party doubled its Dáil seats to eight, although its share of
960-716: The party controlled two of the most important cabinet positions ( Justice and Health ), despite having less than one-tenth of the seats of its coalition partner Fianna Fáil. In a 2000 speech to the American Bar Association , the then party leader Mary Harney appeared to express a desire that Ireland become "closer to Boston than Berlin", adopting US free-market models for economic development, health, education, and other services rather than European Continental models because she believed that while continental countries (such as Germany and France ) have more equality, they had bad economies and high unemployment. However, in
1000-509: The party rules then required that the position must be held by a TD). A meeting of the party's General Council on 16 February 2008 changed the rules to allow any senator, councillor or any party member with the support of 20 other members to stand for the party's leadership and on 17 April, Senator Ciarán Cannon was elected leader, defeating fellow Senator Fiona O'Malley . The party's two remaining TDs , Mary Harney and Noel Grealish , entered into coalition government with Fianna Fáil and
1040-629: The party was still operating and in receipt of state funding, including a Party Leader's Allowance paid to Minister Mary Harney, but had ceased to receive funding by the following June. In March 2009, Noel Grealish became caretaker leader after Cannon's decision to join Fine Gael , and he retained the role for the remaining months of the party's existence. The archives of the Progressive Democrats party were presented to University College Dublin on 10 June 2009. At least 20 former Progressive Democrats councillors won seats on county, city and town councils at
1080-489: The past 10 to 20 years have been more favourable to high income groups than low income groups, but particularly so during periods of high growth". While the party was in government since 1997, the lower rate of income tax fell from 26% to 20% and the upper rate from 48% to 41%. They supported low corporation tax because they believe it encouraged business growth and enabled private enterprise to be rewarded. The party often claimed these policies were in part responsible for
1120-569: The presidency. Born in Belfast , she was formerly a journalist with broadcaster, RTÉ , and at the time of her nomination, she was Pro-Vice Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast . Two other candidates, Albert Reynolds and Michael O'Kennedy , had also sought the Fianna Fáil nomination. Reynolds was a former Taoiseach while O'Kennedy was a former cabinet minister having served in the Finance and Foreign Affairs portfolios. Both were also sitting TDs which
1160-466: The previously state-owned airline Aer Lingus and communications company Telecom Éireann . They were also part of the break-up of airports company Aer Rianta and unsuccessfully lobbied for a private, competing second terminal in Dublin Airport . As acting PD leader and Minister for Health , Mary Harney was involved in the controversial extension of private-sector influence in health care. She pursued
1200-627: The vote declined slightly to 4%. In total, the Progressive Democrats participated in coalition governments four times, on each occasion with Fianna Fáil (1989–1992; 1997–2002; 2002–2007; 2007–2009), and also with the Green Party from 2007 to 2009. In 2005 Michael McDowell publicly took a firmly anti-republican position and named Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and Martin Ferris as members of the IRA Army Council. The convention in Irish politics at this time
1240-420: Was a controversial minister who attempted to extend private influence in the health service and McDowell's campaign in the general election included particularly strong attacks on Irish left-wing parties. Despite having in its ranks the openly gay Colm O'Gorman , the Progressive Democrats did not support same-sex marriage . Instead, they claimed to propose legislating for civil union ; however attempts by
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1280-472: Was a strong opponent of Haughey and was involved in a number of leadership heaves against Haughey, who was popular and controversial in equal measure. O'Malley had lost the Fianna Fáil whip in the Dáil in 1984 because of his support for the New Ireland Forum report and was finally expelled from Fianna Fáil early in 1985 for "conduct unbecoming" a member when he refused to support Fianna Fáil's opposition to
1320-448: Was also blamed for contributing to the post-2008 Irish financial and economic crisis . Mary Harney became party leader in 1993, the first woman to lead any major Irish political party. She stepped down in 2006 and was succeeded by Michael McDowell , who led the party into the 2007 general election , where it lost six of its eight seats in the Dáil. The party never recovered from this electoral collapse. On 8 November 2008, delegates to
1360-538: Was asked by the party chairperson to resume the role of party leader. The following month, Tom Parlon announced that he was also leaving public life and would take up the position of Director General of the Irish Construction Industry Federation. A committee headed by former Senator John Dardis recommended in September 2007 that the role of leader be taken on by a senator or councillor (although
1400-513: Was elected in Galway East for the same party, while Noel Grealish (PD TD 2002–2009 / caretaker party leader 2009) was re-elected as an independent TD for Galway West . Several ex-PD members stood for election to Seanad Éireann in 2011. Cáit Keane was elected as a Fine Gael senator; she had served on South Dublin County Council for the PDs between 1991 and 2008, and had stood for election in
1440-555: Was elected unopposed as Party Leader, having been nominated by Tom Parlon and that nomination being seconded by Liz O'Donnell . Liz O'Donnell became Deputy Leader and Tom Parlon became Party President. The 2007 general election was a disastrous one for the party. The Progressive Democrats lost six of their eight seats in the 166-seat Dáil . Among those to lose their seats were party leader Michael McDowell, deputy leader Liz O'Donnell and party president Tom Parlon. McDowell retired from public life after he lost his seat, and Mary Harney
1480-526: Was not to accuse Sinn Féin politicians of being members of the Army Council, in doing so McDowell broke with convention. He said that until the IRA disbanded Sinn Féin could not be involved in government, North or South. On 7 September 2006, Mary Harney announced that she was stepping down as leader of the Progressive Democrats. She expressed a wish to stay on as Minister for Health. On 10 September, Michael McDowell
1520-508: Was seen as an advantage. In the first round of voting, Reynolds received 49 votes, McAleese 42, and O'Kennedy 21. In the second round, McAleese won, with 62 votes to Reynolds's 48. McAleese was later also endorsed by the Progressive Democrats , the smaller party in the coalition government with Fianna Fáil. Mary Banotti was nominated by Fine Gael . She was the grand-niece of the former Irish leader, Michael Collins , and sister of
1560-748: Was taxed at 60 percent, the country's national debt was 104 percent of GDP, unemployment was 17.3 percent, the Progressive Democrats' liberal reformist agenda was considered especially radical. McDowell suggested a number of names for the party, including New Democrats, New Republic, National Party, Radical Party; Progressive Democrats was not among his suggestions. O'Malley declared that the party ought to be pro-enterprise, in favour of economic participation by all, liberal and pluralist, hostile to institutional dependency, favourable to incentives, pro self-reliance, deregulating where possible, anti-monopoly and pro-competition, low-key on nationalism, stressing "real republican" values rather than "nationalistic myths". At
1600-416: Was the fifth candidate to join the presidential race and the only male candidate. He was a retired Garda and victims' rights campaigner. He also received the nominations of five county councils: Carlow , Clare , Kildare , South Dublin and Wexford . Progressive Democrats The Progressive Democrats ( Irish : An Páirtí Daonlathach , literally "The Democratic Party"), commonly referred to as
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