Mick Finnegan is a former president of the Workers' Party. He was elected to that position on 17 May 2008 at the party's Annual Conference and retired in 2014. Finnegan is originally from near

Bailieborough Bailieborough or Bailieboro (; ) is a town in County Cavan, Ireland. , its population was 2,683, up from 1,529 as of the 1996 census. Bailieborough's proximity to the N3 National Road has made it a commuter town. History Plantation Before ...

, County Cavan, but has spent most of his life in

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. He worked for many years in the construction industry in both Great Britain and

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and was a

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in the Dublin Construction Branch of the then

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(now

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), before becoming a full-time branch official. Finnegan was for many years the Workers' Party director of elections in Dublin West on behalf of then party President

Tomás Mac Giolla Tomás Mac Giolla (; born Thomas Gill; 25 January 1924 – 4 February 2010) was an Irish Workers' Party politician who served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1993 to 1994, Leader of the Workers' Party from 1962 to 1988 and President of Sinn Féin ...

. He contested the

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for the party (then known as Sinn Féin The Workers Party) in Dublin West, polling 0.7%, as a second candidate to Mac Giolla who was to be elected in the constituency in the November 1982 general election and the 2007 general election in Dublin Mid-West, polling 0.98%. Finnegan also unsuccessfully contested the

1999 Irish local elections The 1999 Irish local elections were held in all the counties, cities and towns of Ireland on Friday, 11 June 1999, on the same day as the European elections. Results 18 Workers' Party councillors had left the party in 1992 upon the creat ...

, polling 3.4% of the vote and the 2009 local elections in the Lucan electoral area, polling 4.6% of the vote.ElectionsIreland.org: Mick Finnegan profile
electionsireland.org; accessed 19 February 2016.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Finnegan, Mick Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Politicians from County Cavan Politicians from Dublin (city) Workers' Party (Ireland) politicians