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Paddy Devlin of the NILP, a former supporter of the reformists in the Belfast branch of the Irish Labour Party, defeated him in the Northern Ireland general election, 1969.
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During this period the party stood for elections in Northern Ireland, after a split in the Northern Ireland Labour Party when Paddy Devlin helped re-establish the party in Belfast, the party did win seats in the Westminster Parliament ( Jack Beattie MP for West Belfast 1951 ) and Stormont Parliament in the Belfast area as well as in district council elections ( Falls, Belfast City Council by election 1956, Gerry Fitt 1958 Council Elections ).
Living in the nationalist Beechmount neighbourhood of the Falls, he stood for the Falls as a candidate for the Dock Labour Party in a city council by-election in 1956, but lost to Paddy Devlin of the Irish Labour Party, who would later be his close ally.
Like Paddy Devlin before him, he claimed the SDLP had ceased to be a socialist force.
In 1987 the remains of the party merged with Labour Party of Northern Ireland ( formed in 1985 by former SDLP leader Paddy Devlin ), the Ulster Liberal Party and the United Labour Party to form the Labour ' 87 group.
He held the seat until 1969, when he was defeated by Paddy Devlin standing for the Northern Ireland Labour Party.
Paddy Devlin ( 8 March 1925-15 August 1999 ) was a Northern Irish social democrat and Labour activist, a former Stormont MP, a founder of the Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) and a member of the 1974 Power Sharing Executive.
The first chair of NICRA was Betty Sinclair ( Communist Party ) from 1968-1969 ; other committee members included Paddy Devlin ( NILP ), Ivan Cooper, Robin Cole ( Young Unionists ), Kevin Agnew, Conn McCluskey, Jack Bennett, Madge Davidson, and Fred Heatley.
On 21 August 1970 Cooper co-founded the Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) with Hume, Paddy Devlin and Gerry Fitt.
Columnists include Amanda Brunker, Lorraine Keane, Martina Devlin, Paddy Murray, Fr Brian Darcy, Des Ekin and Daniel O ' Donnell.
Paddy and former
Since 1967, the facility has been occupied by the former British Army Major Paddy Roy Bates ; his associates and family claim that it is an independent sovereign state.
Soon after the breakup Shane MacGowan recorded a song called Paddy Public Enemy Number One as a tribute to the Republican leader Dominic McGlinchey, a former leader of the INLA killed a few years before.
In May 2009, Dick Mills reunited with former BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Roger Limb, Paddy Kingsland and Peter Howell with archivist Mark Ayres for a live concert at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, performing as " The Radiophonic Workshop ".
Folksinger John Earls went to Bolivia and former Tribune ( Communist Party of Australia newspaper ) cartoonist Harry Reade went to join Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba ( and returned in 1971 at the same time as Paddy McGuinness ).
He retained the title by beating Humberto Sierra by a knockout in 10 and he beat former world champion Paddy DeMarco, also in ten, but by decision.
* Paddy Cullen, Irish former football goalkeeper and manager
* Paddy Tuimavave, former rugby league player who represented New Zealand and Western Samoa
* John J. Dwyer defeats former champion Jimmy Elliott in 12 rounds at Long Point, Canada, and then claims the Heavyweight Championship of America due to the continued inactivity of current champion Joe Goss and the main challenger Paddy Ryan.
Born and raised in the Turner's Cross area of Cork, Martin was the son of Paddy Martin ( 1923 – 2012 ), a former Irish international boxer and CIÉ employee, and Eileen " Lana " Corbett ( 1929 – 2010 ).
In 2001, he was elected as the MP for Yeovil, the seat previously represented by former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown.
Notable former students include Paul Addison, Tony Brindle-Wills, comedians Kenny Everett, Tom O ' Connor and Johnny Vegas, the libel lawyer George Carman, pop musician Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout, the editor of the Jerusalem Bible and British Member of Parliament John Battle.
* Paddy Harte OBE, former TD
" We carried him at last " was former team-mate Paddy Barry's remark, in reference to Ring often saving the Cork hurlers from almost certain defeat.
Patrick William Howard, usually known as Pat Howard or Paddy Howard ( born 14 November 1973 ) is an ex-head coach at Leicester Tigers and a former Australian rugby union international who played centre or fly-half.
* Paddy Harte, former Fine Gael TD
William was allegedly recalled by elderly former neighbors, and allegedly known in Liverpool folklore as " Billy " or " Paddy " Hitler.
Prefab Sprout debuted in 1982 with their self-released single, " Lions In My Own Garden: Exit Someone "-songwriter Paddy McAloon wanted a song title where the first letters of the words spelled out Limoges, the French city where his former girlfriend was staying at the time.
Personalities to own a DW medal are former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Paddy Ashdown, explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, double Olympic gold medallist rower James Cracknell and Rebecca Stephens, the first woman to climb Everest solo.
Patrick ( Paddy ) Mark Cooney ( born 2 March 1931 ) is a former Irish politician of the Fine Gael party.
Paddy J. O ' Toole ( born January 1938 ) is a former Irish politician.
* 26 November – Paddy Donegan, former Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister ( born 1923 ).
* 21 July – Paddy Grace, former Kilkenny hurler ( born 1917 )
Patrick ( Paddy ) Power ( born 19 November 1928 ) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála ( TD ) and Minister of the Haughey era.
* Paddy Prendergast, former Kilkenny hurler.
Paddy and supporter
John Regan was a keen Gaelic Football supporter, and along with Davy McCoy and Paddy McNally, founded the renewed Thomas Russell GAA Club in Holywood in the late 1940s.
Paddy and Belfast
It was excluded because Paddy Doyle, the Belfast O / C and a member of the Army Council, was arrested and the unit was disorganized, although Hanley and Millar attribute the non-participation of the Belfast IRA to fears that informers had access to the IRA's plans.
Members were recorded as coming from South Africa ( Buck Parker ), the United States ( Harry Milton, Wales, Belfast ( Paddy O ' Hara ), Chorley, Larkhall, Glasgow ( Charles Doran ), Anglesey, Manchester, Bristol ( Tom Coles ), Dartford, Bingley, Twickenham and Golders Green.
Paddy and branch
Emmeline falls asleep and does not notice when Paddy brings a branch of the scarlet berries into the boat.
With an olive branch and a shillelagh: The political career of Senator Paddy Lynch ( 1867-1944 ) ( thesis ).
Inexplicably, even to herself, Emmeline has broken off a branch of the deadly " never-wake-up " berries that Paddy warned her about on their first day.
Paddy and Irish
*" Poor Paddy Works on the Railway " is a popular Irish and American folk song.
Coleman is a flute player and has taken several flutes with her to the ISS, including a pennywhistle from Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains, an old Irish flute from Matt Molloy of The Chieftains, and a flute from Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.
Mary J. Hickman writes that " plastic Paddy " was a term used to " deny and denigrate the second-generation Irish in Britain " in the 1980s, and was " frequently articulated by the new middle class Irish immigrants in Britain, for whom it was a means of distancing themselves from established Irish communities.
British Mixed martial arts fighter Dan Hardy has called American fighter Marcus Davis a " Plastic Paddy " due to Marcus ' enthusiasm for his Irish ancestry.
* 1983 – Paddy McCarthy, Irish footballer
For example the same reel Rakish Paddy is notated in 2 / 2 time with an alla breve ( cut time ) Image: mensural proportion1. gif time signature in Miles Krassen, O ' Neill's Music of Ireland, New & Revisited, p. 158, ( 1976 ), whereas in 4 / 4 time in Robin Williamson, English, Welsh, Scottish & Irish Fiddle Tunes, p. 69, ( 1976 ), each measure in both cases spanning the same part of the melody.
In 1973, Paddy Moloney ( of The Chieftains ) and Sean Potts released Tin Whistles, which helped to popularise the tin whistle in particular, and Irish music in general.
* Paddy Joyce as Irish Soldier
The Irish presidential election of 1976 was precipitated by the sudden resignation of President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh in October 1976, following an attack on him by Paddy Donegan, the Minister for Defence in which the Minister called the President a " thundering disgrace " and implied he was disloyal to the state.
During World War II, the Irish Paddy, the American G. I.
* Paddy Reilly ( 1939 –), Irish folk singer
* Paddy Barnes ( born 1987 ), Irish amateur boxer
* Paddy Belton ( 1926-1987 ), Irish politician
* Paddy Corrigan ( born 1962 ), Irish retired hurling player
* Paddy Daly ( 1888 – 1957 ), member of the Irish Republican Army and major-general in the Irish National Army
* Paddy Donegan ( 1923-2000 ), Irish politician
* Paddy Glackin ( born 1954 ), Irish fiddler
* Paddy Gormley ( 1916-2001 ), Irish politician
* Paddy Harrington ( 1933 – 2005 ), Irish Gaelic footballer
* Paddy Harte ( born 1931 ), Irish retired politician
* Paddy Henderson ( footballer ) ( born 1938 ), Irish football goalkeeper
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