The Workers' Party has a new President. On Saturday Mick Finnegan of the Lucan Branch of the party in Dublin was
declared elected President after he was the sole candidate for the position having received strong backing from party branches
around the country.
Recently outgoing Party President Seán Garland had announced he was not going forward for re-election after ten years
in the position.
Mick Finnegan is a native of Bailieboro, Co. Cavan but has lived in Dublin for many years. For over 20 years he
has been a community activist in the Lucan / Clondalkin area in West Dublin where he and his wife Anne, who is also a Workers'
Party activist, played a leading role in exposing corruption in housing rezoning, particularly in relation to Quarryvale.
Mick worked for most of his life in the building industry where he was a very activist trade unionist with SIPTU and
later became an official in the Construction Branch of the union.
For many years he was Director of Elections for former Party President Tomás Mac Giolla in the Dublin West consitutuency
and directed several of Tomás's successful campaigns.
