Editing Pat Rabbitte (section)

{{Short description|Irish former Labour Party leader (b. 1949)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name          = Pat Rabbitte 
| image         = Pat Rabbitte, circa 2002.jpg 
| caption       = Rabbitte, {{circa|2002}}
| office        = [[Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources]]
| taoiseach     = [[Enda Kenny]]
| term_start    = 9 March 2011
| term_end      = 11 July 2014
| predecessor   = [[Pat Carey]]
| successor     = [[Alex White (Irish politician)|Alex White]]
| office1       = [[Leader of the Labour Party (Ireland)|Leader of the Labour Party]]
| deputy1       = [[Liz McManus]]
| term_start1   = 25 October 2002
| term_end1     = 6 September 2007
| predecessor1  = [[Ruairi Quinn]]
| successor1    = [[Eamon Gilmore]]
| office2       = [[Minister of State (Ireland)|Minister of State]]
| suboffice2    = [[Minister of State to the Government|Government]]
| subterm2      = 1994–1997
| suboffice3    = [[Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment|Enterprise and Employment]]
| subterm3      = 1994–1997
| office4       = [[Teachta Dála]]
| term_start4   = [[1989 Irish general election|June 1989]]
| term_end4     = [[2016 Irish general election|February 2016]]
| constituency4 = [[Dublin South-West (Dáil constituency)|Dublin South-West]]
| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1949|5|18|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Claremorris]], [[County Mayo]], Ireland
| death_date    = 
| death_place   = 
| nationality   = [[Irish people|Irish]]
| party         = [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]
| spouse        = {{marriage|Derry Rabbitte|1981}}
| children      = 3
| education     = [[St Colman's College, Claremorris|St Colman's College]]
| alma_mater    = [[University of Galway|University College Galway]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nuigalway.ie/alumni/newsletter/spring2011.html |title=Former NUI Galway Students, including Taoiseach, take senior roles in Cabinet |date=Spring 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509052031/http://www.nuigalway.ie/alumni/newsletter/spring2011.html |archive-date=9 May 2012}}</ref>
|}}
'''Pat Rabbitte''' (born 18 May 1949) is an Irish former [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]] politician who served as [[Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources]] from 2011 to 2014, [[Leader of the Labour Party (Ireland)|Leader of the Labour Party]] from 2002 to 2007 and a [[Minister of State (Ireland)|Minister of State]] from 1994 to 1997. He served as a [[Teachta Dála]] (TD) for the [[Dublin South-West (Dáil constituency)|Dublin South-West]] constituency from 1989 to 2016.<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web |url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Pat-Rabbitte.D.1989-06-29/ |title=Pat Rabbitte |work=Oireachtas Members Database |date=2 February 2016 |access-date=28 December 2018 |archive-date=29 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181229031711/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Pat-Rabbitte.D.1989-06-29/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=RTE_23082007>{{cite news |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0823/labour.html |title=Rabbitte resigns as Labour leader |work=[[RTÉ News]] |date=23 August 2007 |access-date=23 August 2007 |archive-date=8 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080508022149/http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0823/labour.html |url-status=live }}</ref>