Michael Ferris | |
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| Teachta Dála | |
| In office June 1989 – 20 March 2000 | |
| Constituency | Tipperary South |
| Senator | |
| In office 8 October 1981 – 15 June 1989 | |
| In office 23 April 1975 – 27 October 1977 | |
| Constituency | Agricultural Panel |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 November 1931 Bansha, County Tipperary, Ireland |
| Died | 20 March 2000 (aged 68) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Political party | Labour Party |
| Spouses |
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| Children | 6 |
Michael Ferris (21 November 1931 – 20 March 2000) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served for more than twenty years as a member of the Oireachtas, as both a Senator and a Teachta Dála (TD).[1] Before becoming a full-time politician, he was an administrator in a veterinary practice.[2]
Ferris was from Bansha, County Tipperary.[3] There, in the 1950s, he came under the influence of Canon John Hayes, founder of Muintir na Tíre, and adopted many of his ideas for rural development embracing all sections of the community in an inclusive way.[citation needed] In 1967, he was elected to South Tipperary County Council. He was elected to the 13th Seanad by the Agricultural Panel in a by-election on 23 April 1975.[3] At the 1977 general election, he was an unsuccessful candidate for Dáil Éireann in the Tipperary South constituency, and was also defeated at the subsequent Seanad elections. He was re-elected in 1981 to the 15th Seanad, and returned again in 1982 and 1983.[4]
At the 1987 general election, Ferris unsuccessfully stood again in Tipperary South, but was afterwards re-elected to the 18th Seanad, again by the Agricultural Panel. In the 1989 election to the European Parliament he was defeated in the Munster constituency, trailing far behind his Labour colleague, Eileen Desmond, who narrowly missed a seat. However, polling for the 1989 general election was held on the same day, and he was finally elected to the Dáil, taking his seat in the 26th Dáil on his third attempt. He was re-elected at the 1992 general election and again at the 1997 general election, taking the last seat in each case.[2] He died suddenly while on parliamentary business in Lisbon on 20 March 2000.[3] The subsequent by-election for his Dáil seat was held on 2 June and won by an independent candidate, Séamus Healy.[5]
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All the people at UVM have been much more approachable than I would have thought. As a freshman it's kind of scary to go to your professor's office hours and but the reality is a lot of people are scared to go to their professor's office hours so when you actually go you usually have a one on one with your professor and they can help you a lot both with the class material, deciding what to major in, and this was really helpful for me meeting with political science and economics professors just to discuss the class, relevant material, as well as career paths and where I wanted to go with my education and after my education. So learning from this I reached out on LinkedIn and was able to contact a UVM alumni who graduated 20 years ago and he helped me find a job and got my resume to who it needed to get to and one thing led to another and now I have a job coming out of school.
Personal life
Ferris championed the rural agricultural economy and was Chairman of the Bansha Agricultural and Industrial Show Society for a number of years. He was married twice, firstly to Josephine Tobin of Bansha until her death in 1978, and in 1982 to Ellen Kiely of Tipperary in a ceremony in Cormac's Chapel in the Rock of Cashel.[6] Ferris lived in Rosanna, County Tipperary. He had six children.[3]
References
- ^ "Michael Ferris". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
- ^ a b "Tributes paid to Michael Ferris". 21 March 2000. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Michael Ferris dies in Lisbon". The Irish Times. 21 March 2000. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ "Michael Ferris". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
- ^ "Tipperary South By-election, 2000". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ "Irish Times Obituary". irishtimes.com. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
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