Editing Dick Spring (section)

{{Short description|Irish former Labour Party leader (born 1950)}}
{{distinguish|Dick Springer}}
{{BLP sources|date=December 2022}}
{{Use Hiberno-English|date=November 2018}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| image         = Dick Spring, April 1995 02 (cropped).jpg
| caption       = Spring in 1995
| office        = [[Tánaiste]]
| taoiseach     = [[John Bruton]]
| term_start    = 15 December 1994
| term_end      = 26 June 1997
| predecessor   = [[Bertie Ahern]]
| successor     = [[Mary Harney]]
| taoiseach1    = [[Albert Reynolds]]
| term_start1   = 12 January 1993
| term_end1     = 17 November 1994
| predecessor1  = [[John Wilson (Irish politician)|John Wilson]]
| successor1    = Bertie Ahern
| taoiseach2    = [[Garret FitzGerald]]
| term_start2   = 14 December 1982
| term_end2     = 20 January 1987
| predecessor2  = [[Ray MacSharry]]
| successor2    = [[Peter Barry (politician)|Peter Barry]]
| office3       = [[Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade|Minister for Foreign Affairs]]
| taoiseach3    = John Bruton
| term_start3   = 15 December 1994
| term_end3     = 26 June 1997
| predecessor3  = Albert Reynolds
| successor3    = [[Ray Burke (Irish politician)|Ray Burke]]
| taoiseach4    = Albert Reynolds
| term_start4   = 12 January 1993
| term_end4     = 17 November 1994
| predecessor4  = David Andrews
| successor4    = Albert Reynolds
| office5       = [[Leader of the Labour Party (Ireland)|Leader of the Labour Party]]
| deputy5       = {{Ubl|[[Barry Desmond]]|[[Ruairi Quinn]]}}
| term_start5   = 1 November 1982
| term_end5     = 13 November 1997
| predecessor5  = [[Michael O'Leary (politician)|Michael O'Leary]]
| successor5    = Ruairi Quinn
| office6       = [[Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage|Minister for the Environment]]
| taoiseach6    = Garret FitzGerald
| term_start6   = 14 December 1982
| term_end6     = 13 December 1983
| predecessor6  = [[Ray Burke (Irish politician)|Ray Burke]]
| successor6    = [[Liam Kavanagh]]
| office7       = [[Minister of State (Ireland)|Minister of State]]
| suboffice7    = [[Minister of State at the Department of Justice|Justice]]
| subterm7      = 1981–1982
| office8       = [[Teachta Dála]]
| term_start8   = [[1981 Irish general election|June 1981]]
| term_end8     = [[2002 Irish general election|May 2002]]
| constituency8 = [[Kerry North (Dáil constituency)|Kerry North]]
| birth_name    = Richard Martin Spring
| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1950|08|29|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Tralee]], [[County Kerry]], Ireland
| death_date    =
| death_place   =
| nationality   = [[Irish people|Irish]]
| party         = [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]
| spouse        = {{marriage|Kristi Hutcheson|1978}}
| children      = 3
| father        = [[Dan Spring]]
| relatives     = {{Ubl|[[Donal Spring]] (brother)|[[Arthur Spring]] (nephew)}}
| education     = [[Cistercian College, Roscrea]]
| alma_mater    = {{Ubl|[[Trinity College Dublin]]|[[King's Inns]]}}
|}}
'''Richard Martin Spring''' (born 29 August 1950) is an Irish former [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]] politician who served as [[Tánaiste]] from 1982 to 1987, 1992 to November 1994, and December 1994 to 1997, [[Leader of the Labour Party (Ireland)|Leader of the Labour Party]] from 1982 to 1997, [[Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade|Minister for Foreign Affairs]] from 1993 to November 1994 and December 1994 to 1997, [[Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media|Minister for Energy]] from 1983 to 1987, and [[Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage|Minister for the Environment]] from 1982 to 1983. He was a [[Teachta Dála]] (TD) for [[Kerry North (Dáil constituency)|Kerry North]] from 1981 to 2002.<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Dick-Spring.D.1981-06-30/|title=Dick Spring|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=24 September 2010|archive-date=12 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612184954/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Dick-Spring.D.1981-06-30/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Before his political career, Spring was a successful sportsman who played for the [[Ireland national rugby union team]] and the [[Kerry GAA]] football and hurling teams.