The series also featured a number of contemporary Irish actors and comedians, including Dervla Kirwan, Graham Norton, Tommy Tiernan, Patrick McDonnell, Don Wycherley, Joe Rooney, Jason Byrne, Jim Norton, Pat Shortt, Jon Kenny, Ed Byrne, Brendan Grace, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Gerard McSorley and Kevin McKidd.

Liberal Gerard Kennedy succeeded Rae as MPP for York South.

However, Rae lost his bid for the leadership in the third round of Convention balloting, placing third behind both Michael Ignatieff and Stéphane Dion, who had leapfrogged into first after receiving the support of Gerard Kennedy.

However, his fundraising efforts left him well behind the top tier of leadership contenders ( Michael Ignatieff, Gerard Kennedy, Stéphane Dion and Bob Rae ).

He was elected leader at the party's 1996 leadership convention in a surprise victory over front-runner Gerard Kennedy.

Education Minister Gerard Kennedy established a province-wide negotiating framework with the province's teachers ' unions with the result that most school boards settled their contracts without lost teaching time.

On June 22, 2005, Education Minister Gerard Kennedy announced that 90 – 95 % of Ontario students between junior kindergarten and Grade Three will be in classes of twenty students or fewer by 2007.

Those delegates ended up being pivotal in helping Dion pass Gerard Kennedy for third place on the first convention ballot, and eventually win the leadership when Kennedy swung his own support behind Dion after the second ballot.

Liberal Education Minister Gerard Kennedy resigned on 5 April 2006 to run for the Federal Liberal Party leadership.

Trudeau announced his support for leadership candidate Gerard Kennedy shortly before the 2006 convention and introduced Kennedy during the candidates ' final speeches.

Appointed as the critic for Science and Research within the Liberal shadow cabinet, Mr. Fontana was strongly speculated to be considering a run for leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, though he ultimately did not seek the post, supporting Gerard Kennedy instead.

Nixon supported Gerard Kennedy for the leadership of the provincial Liberal Party in 1996.

The Tories won the election with a reduced majority, and McLeod swapped shadow cabinet portfolios with Gerard Kennedy to serve as her party's health critic in the legislature that followed.

* Ontario provincial election, 1999, Parkdale — High Park, 501 votes ( winner: Gerard Kennedy, Liberal )

* Gerard Kennedy Tucker-Founder of the Brotherhood of St Laurence, born in South Yarra in 1885.

Acclaimed novelists Blake Morrison, Chris Whyte, Lionel Shriver, Colm Tóibín, Jennifer Johnston, John McGahern, Joseph O ’ Neill, Sebastian Barry, Joseph O ’ Connor, Hugo Hamilton, Edna O ’ Brien, Douglas Kennedy, Patrick McGrath, William Trevor, Colum McCann, Gerard Donovan, Frank McCourt, Joris Duytschaever, Irvine Welsh, Dr. Robyn Rowland, Andrew Lindsay, Michael Cunningham, Jane Urquhart, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Cees Nooteboom, Michael Dibdin, Clyde Rose, Abdel Bari Atwan, Clive James, Melvyn Bragg, Alain De Botton, Lloyd Jones, Eric P Kaufman, Robert Fisk, Jung Chang, Terry Jones, Gabriel Byrne, Christine Dwyer-Hickey and many more.

Godbout, along with a number of former and present Ontario Liberal MPs endorsed party leadership candidate Gerard Kennedy.

Bartolucci was a co-manager of Dwight Duncan's bid to lead the Ontario Liberal Party in 1996, and moved to the camp of Gerard Kennedy when Duncan was eliminated on the third ballot of the party's leadership convention.

* Gerard Kennedy

* The Road to Gundagai ( 1980 )-vehicle for Bert Newton and Gerard Kennedy as soldiers on latrine duty during the bombing of Darwin

Other Gold Logie winners included Gerard Kennedy, Tony Barber, Graham Kennedy, Pat McDonald, Ernie Sigley and Denise Drysdale in the first awards presentation shown in colour, Don Lane, Jeanne Little, and Bert Newton.

* November 29 – Gerard Hoarau, exiled political leader from the Seychelles, is assassinated in London.

After the INLA killed the IPLO's leader, Gerard Steenson, a truce was reached.

The action of the story follows Sybil Gerard, a political courtesan and daughter of an executed Luddite leader ( she is borrowed from Disraeli's novel Sybil ); Edward " Leviathan " Mallory, a paleontologist and explorer ; and Laurence Oliphant, a historical figure with a real career, as portrayed in the book, as a travel writer whose work was a cover for espionage activities " undertaken in the service of Her Majesty ".

Under his guidance and teaming with president Gerard Swope, GE shifted into the extensive manufacturing of home electrical appliances, establishing the company as a leader in this field and speeding the mass electrification of farms, factories and transportation systems within the US.

Thomas Gerard " Gerry " Healy ( 3 December 1913 – 14 December 1989 ), was a political activist, a co-founder of the International Committee of the Fourth International, and, according to former prominent U. S. supporter David North, the leader of the Trotskyist movement in Great Britain between 1950-85.

Vincent " Vini " Gerard Reilly ( born 4 August 1953, Higher Blackley, Manchester ) is an English musician and leader of the post-punk group The Durutti Column.

Gerard " Gerry " Marsden ( born 24 September 1942 ) is an English musician and television personality, best known for being leader of the British band Gerry and the Pacemakers.

Indeed, Godfrey de Bouillon – the uncrowned ‘ king ’ of Jerusalem – was so impressed with the dedication of these hospital workers under its leader Gerard and with their work toward the sick and the wounded that ' king ' Godfrey de Bouillon supported and gave them funds and facilities.

Gerard Chittocque Brandon ( September 15, 1788March 28, 1850 ) was an American political leader who twice served as Governor of Mississippi during its early years of statehood.

In 1996, he endorsed Gerard Kennedy's unsuccessful bid to become leader of the Ontario Liberal Party.

Gerard was unsuccessful in his campaign for the new Waimakariri electorate, losing to former Labour Party leader Mike Moore.

The INLA shot and killed the IPLO's leader Gerard Steenson in March 1987, and following revenge killings by the IPLO, the organisations agreed to go their separate ways.

In the 1999 European Parliament election, party leader Gerard Casey contested the Dublin constituency.

Yanic Truesdale ( born March 17, 1970 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a Canadian actor best known for his portrayal of Michel Gerard in the television series Gilmore Girls, a role that prompted Daily Variety to name him one of " 10 Actors to Watch ".

It starred the late Gerard Kelly as Willie Melvin, a bank-teller at the fictional Strathclyde Savings Bank ( whose logo was very similar to the TSB ), with dreams of becoming a novelist.

* Smith, Gerard C., Disarming Diplomat: The Memoirs of Ambassador Gerard C. Smith, Arms Control Negotiator ( Toronto, Ontario: Madison Books, 1996 )

The same year, Chris Herron, formerly CEO of Fusion, along with Patrick Batty of Toronto, and Gerard Wolf of Chicago, set up Synon Inc, Synon's US sales and marketing subsidiary, in Larkspur, California.

Gerard Marcus Meehan ( born September 3, 1946 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey left winger and the former general manager and Senior Vice President of the Buffalo Sabres.

The Toronto Star reported that Gerard Kennedy appeared to have signed up more new members than any other candidate during the member recruitment period.

When York was amalgamated with Toronto and four other suburban municipalities in 1997, Saundercook was elected to Toronto City Council in a ward shared with Nunziata, and defeated Ontario Liberal leadership candidate Gerard Kennedy, forcing all three into an uncomfortable working relationship.

Gerard was attending the 1922 Stanley Cup Final, held that year in Toronto when Harry Cameron, a defenceman of the St. Pats, was injured.

Vancouver Millionaires Manager Lester Patrick gave permission to Toronto to use Gerard to replace their injured player.

He led the People's Poetry Workshops on a weekly basis for the Toronto library system at The House On Gerard during the same time period.