Dan Spring

Dan Spring was born into a working-class family in Tralee, County Kerry. He left school at the age of 14 and began his working life with a series of low-skilled jobs. When he was working at a mill, he became involved in the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU) and after a while became a trade union official.
Spring first became prominent neither as a politician nor as a trade unionist, but as a Gaelic Football player. He was the captain of the Tralee O'Rahilly team and captain of the Kerry county side when they won the All-Ireland final in 1940. Through this and his involvement with the ITGWU he became well-known enough to stand in Kerry North for the Irish Labour Party in the Dil elections of 1943. He was elected as the first Labour TD in Kerry ever and held his seat until he retired in 1981.
In 1944 Spring was among a number of 6 TDs who broke away from the Irish Labour Party because it was allegedly infiltrated by communists and formed a new party they called the National Labour Party. The Irish Labour Party and the National Labour Party reunited in 1950, having worked alongside each other in the First Inter-Party Government since 1948.
In 1956, during the term of the Second Inter-Party Government Spring was promoted to a Parliamentary Secretaryship, which he held until the government ended in 1957.
For the rest of his political career Spring never held any significant post on a national level, and as a relatively conservative rural Labour man he fell out of step with the official line of the Irish Labour Party, which moved significantly to the left during the 1960s and 1970s. Spring concentrated on his constituency work and was returned in every election he stood until he made way for his son Dick to take over his seat in 1981. Spring, Dan Spring, Dan Spring, Dan

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