Alex White (Irish politician)

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Alex White is an Irish politician and member of the 23rd Seanad Éireann for the Labour Party on the Cultural and Educational Panel. White was a student activist in Trinity College Dublin. He was first elected to South Dublin County Council in 2004, for the Terenure/Rathfarnham ward. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2007 general election in the Dublin South constituency, losing by a few dozen votes. Alex was nominated as a candidate in 2007 by the Labour Party leadership, after tying for a nomination and losing by having his name pulled from a hat, his opponent, whose name remained in the hat won the nomination (strange rule, winner looses!) He had voted for coalition with Fine Gael in a Labour Party congress (the line of Pat Rabbitte then leader of the party). His election to the Senate has been credited to a voting pact with Sinn Féin. White, when working in RTE, the Irish national broadcaster, had been a strong opponent of Section 31, which prevented Sinn Féin members from being heard. Alex is a rising leader in the labour party and has been named as a possible future leader. He has two children with his wife Dr. Mary Corcoran, a leading Sociologist. His son Fintan 13, and his daughter Mavis, 16.

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