20 Facts About Ged Nash

Gerald Henry Nash was born on 7 December 1975 and is an Irish Labour Party politician who has been a Teachta Dala for the Louth constituency since 2020, and previously from 2011 to 2016.

Ged Nash became a member of Drogheda Borough Council in 2000 and Louth County Council in 2002, serving on both until his election to the Dail in 2011.

Ged Nash served as Minister of State for Business and Employment from 2014 to 2016.

Ged Nash's father was a union representative in a factory and active in the Labour Party.

Ged Nash attended St Joseph's CBS, Drogheda and graduated with a bachelor's degree in politics and history from University College Dublin.

Ged Nash worked as the manager of the Upstate Theatre Project company in Drogheda, as a teacher in St Oliver's Community College in Drogheda and as an advisor to Nessa Childers during her tenure in the European Parliament.

Ged Nash joined the Labour Party as a student in University College Dublin.

Ged Nash is a former National Secretary of Labour Youth.

Ged Nash was co-opted onto Drogheda Borough Council in 2000 to replace retiring councillor Patsy Kirwan, and served on the council until 2011.

Ged Nash was a member of Louth County Council for the local electoral area of Drogheda from 2002 to 2011, serving as mayor of Drogheda from 2004 to 2005.

Ged Nash contested the 2007 general election in the Louth constituency but was not elected, receiving 2,739 votes.

Ged Nash was elected as a Labour Party TD for the Louth constituency at the 2011 general election.

Ged Nash lost his seat at the 2016 general election.

Ged Nash attended cabinet meetings as a non-voting member, a position described as a Super Junior Minister.

In 2018, Ged Nash put forward a bill to issue an apology to men who had been convicted of homosexual offences prior to its decriminalisation in 1993.

Ged Nash put forward a bill in 2019 which aimed to provide greater protection for low paid workers, reform Joint Labour Committees and give the Labour Court the ability to set rates of pay above the minimum wage in low paid sectors of the economy.

Ged Nash was re-elected to the Dail at the 2020 general election, with Simon Carswell of The Irish Times attributing his election to "four years of local campaigning on issues such as fighting gangland crime and improving Drogheda's water infrastructure".

Ged Nash nominated Aodhan O Riordain for the position of leader.

Ged Nash is a director of Drogheda Youth Development, the Calipo Theatre and Picture Company, a Member of Board of the Droichead Arts Centre, a member of Drogheda Rotary Club and a former member of Louth VEC.

Ged Nash has Crohn's disease, which he was diagnosed with in 1990, and has spoken about being bullied as a teenager for it.