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Martin O'Donoghue

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Not to be confused with Martin O'Donohoe.

Martin O'Donoghue
Minister for Education
In office
9 March 1982 – 6 October 1982
TaoiseachCharles Haughey
Preceded byJohn Boland
Succeeded byCharles Haughey
Minister for Economic Planning and Development
In office
8 July 1977 – 11 December 1979
TaoiseachJack Lynch
Preceded byNew office
Succeeded byMichael O'Kennedy
Minister without portfolio
In office
5 July 1977 – 8 July 1977
TaoiseachJack Lynch
Preceded byNew office
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Senator
In office
23 February 1983 – 25 April 1987
ConstituencyAdministrative Panel
Teachta Dála
In office
June 1977 – November 1982
ConstituencyDún Laoghaire
Personal details
Born(1933-05-19)19 May 1933
Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland
Died20 July 2018(2018-07-20) (aged 85)
Dublin, Ireland
Political partyFianna Fáil
Spouse
Evelyn O'Donoghue
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(m. 1963)​
Children3
Alma materTrinity College Dublin

Martin O'Donoghue (19 May 1933 – 20 July 2018) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister for Education from March 1982 to October 1982 and Minister for Economic Planning and Development from 1977 to 1979. He served as a Senator for the Labour Panel from 1983 to 1987. He also served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dún Laoghaire constituency from 1977 to 1982.[1]

He was one of a few TDs to be appointed a Minister on their first day in the Dáil.

Life

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O'Donoghue was born in Dublin in 1933. He was educated in Crumlin and worked as a waiter in Dublin, becoming a mature student at Trinity College Dublin and being awarded a Ph.D. in economics by Trinity College Dublin.

Career

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From 1962 to 1964 and from 1967 to 1969, he was economic consultant at the Departments of Education and Finance respectively. He was elected a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 1969 and promoted to associate professor of Economics there in 1970. Between 1970 and 1973, O'Donoghue was economic adviser to the Taoiseach Jack Lynch.

Politics

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At the 1977 general election O'Donoghue was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD for the Dún Laoghaire constituency.[2] He was chief author of the election manifesto which saw Fianna Fáil achieve an unprecedented twenty-seat majority. O'Donoghue was appointed Minister for Economic Planning and Development on his first day in office as a TD, a new cabinet portfolio.[a][4] In December 1979, Charles Haughey became Taoiseach and O'Donoghue was dropped from cabinet, with the functions of his former department merged into the Department of Finance.[5] In March 1982, O'Donoghue returned to cabinet as Minister for Education. In October 1982, he and Des O'Malley refused to support Haughey in a leadership challenge and resigned from cabinet. At the November 1982 general election O'Donoghue lost his seat.

O'Donoghue was elected to the 17th Seanad in 1983. He resigned from the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party in February 1983 after leaked phone calls emerged of him being critical of Haughey while he was a cabinet minister.[6] He later left Fianna Fáil, becoming a supporter of the Progressive Democrats, a party founded by Des O'Malley.[7][4] He remained in the Seanad until 1987.

Later career

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O'Donoghue returned to academia until his retirement in 1995. In 1998, he became a director of the Central Bank of Ireland, serving with this and its successor body until the end of April 2008. He was a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and served on the board of the O'Reilly Foundation.

He died on 20 July 2018.[4][8]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ O'Donoghue was a minister without portfolio from July to December 1977, pending the establishment of the new department.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Martin O'Donoghue". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 22 July 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  2. ^ "Martin O'Donoghue". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Assignment of Department: Statement by Taoiseach". Dáil Debates. 302 (8). 13 December 1977. Archived from the original on 1 February 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  4. ^ a b c "Former Fianna Fáil minister Martin O'Donoghue dies". RTÉ News. 21 July 2018. Archived from the original on 21 July 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  5. ^ Economic Planning and Development (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 1980 (S.I. No. 1 of 1980). Signed on 2 January 1980. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Archived from the original on 19 January 2020. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 1 February 2020.
  6. ^ Coghlan, Denis (10 February 1983). "O'Donoghue resigns from parliamentary party". The Irish Times. p. 10.
  7. ^ "Homan to run for PDs". The Irish Times. 19 January 1987. p. 7.
  8. ^ "Death notice". The Irish Times. 21 July 2018. Archived from the original on 12 September 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
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Political offices
New office Minister for Economic Planning and Development
1977–1979 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister for Education
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