Editing Dick Spring (section)

==Subsequent life==
Spring later became involved in the [[Cyprus dispute]] as a [[United Nations]] envoy.

Spring received a directorship appointment to the Irish state telecom enterprise, [[Eircom]], in advance of the scheduled privatisation. As leader of a left-of-centre party, this was to endorse the privatization and gain consent from the labour unions to the privatisation plan. However, the privatisation was a financial disaster for members of the public, who became ordinary shareholders in the privatisation process. Spring became the target for much of the discontent. Spring's low work involvement, and generous remuneration package, were openly described as 'scandalous', by shareholder advocate Senator [[Shane Ross]]. He continues to hold a directorship, with the Financial Services firm [[FEXCO]], based in [[Killorglin]], County Kerry.

Spring lives in Tralee with his wife Kristi ({{nee|Hutcheson}}), an American whom he met while working in New York as a bartender. They have three children. His nephew [[Arthur Spring]] was a Labour Party TD for [[Kerry North–West Limerick (Dáil constituency)|Kerry North–West Limerick]] until March 2016, having first been a councillor for the Tralee electoral area of [[Kerry County Council]]. Spring is a member of Ballybunion Golf Club, and has invited former [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Bill Clinton]], amongst others, to visit there.

He is a director of [[Allied Irish Bank]] and receives annual pension payments of €121,108.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/thanks-big-fellas-ahern-and-cowen-get-massive-pensions-2931032.html|title=Thanks big fellas: Ahern and Cowen get massive pensions|work=[[Irish Independent]]|access-date=10 November 2011|first=Fiach|last=Kelly|date=10 November 2011|archive-date=14 September 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120914031001/http://www.independent.ie/national-news/thanks-big-fellas-ahern-and-cowen-get-massive-pensions-2931032.html|url-status=live}}</ref>