Detail from Labor, Charles Sprague Pearce (1896).

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Labour or Labor may refer to:

Employment

• Employment of any kind
• Manual labour, physical work done by people
• Wage labour, delivery of services by person for payment

Additional labour & employment topics

• Child labour, the employment of children under an age determined by law or custom
• Debt bondage is a system of unfree labour where a person must work to pay off a debt
• Labour Day, a national holiday in many countries
• Labor Day, a federal holiday in the US
• Labour movement, the development of a collective organisation of working people
• Labour relations, the study of the relationship between management and workers
• Labour union, an association of wage-earners meant to maintain or improve conditions of employment
• Labour/Le Travail, an academic journal focusing on the Canadian labour movement.
• Unfree labour, slavery or penal labour
• Workforce, the labour pool, the people working in a company, industry, nation or other group

Politics

• Labour Party, a political party in various countries

Political economy

• Labour economics, the study of labour as one of the three main factors of production

Geography

• Labor, an obsolete unit of area
• Josef Labor, a composer, pianist, organist, and teacher
• Labor, Slovenia

Other:

• Childbirth, especially from the start of uterine contractions to delivery

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David Cullinane is an Irish Sinn Féin politician.^[1] He was elected to Seanad Éireann on the Labour Panel in April 2011.

Cullinane was born in Waterford city. He was elected to Waterford City Council at the 2004 local elections where he retained his seat in the 2009 elections.^[2] He unsuccessfully contested the Waterford constituency at the 2002, 2007 and 2011 general elections.

He is married to Kilkenny Borough councillor Kathleen Funchion.

References[link]

External links[link]

• David Cullinane's page on the Sinn Féin website

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Mary Lou McDonald TD
Teachta Dála
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 February 2011
Constituency	Dublin Central
Vice President of Sinn Féin
Incumbent
Assumed office 2009
Preceded by	Pat Doherty
Member of the European Parliament
In office June 2004 – June 2009
Constituency	Dublin
Personal details
Born	(1969-05-01) 1 May 1969 (age 43) Dublin
Nationality	Irish
Political party	Sinn Féin
Spouse(s)	Martin McDonald
Children	2
Alma mater	Trinity College, Dublin, University of Limerick, Dublin City University

Mary Lou McDonald (born 1 May 1969 in Dublin) is an Irish politician, the current Vice President of Sinn Féin and a Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin Central.^[1] McDonald was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), from 2004–2009 representing the Dublin constituency.

Background[link]

Mary Lou McDonald was educated in Trinity College, Dublin, the University of Limerick and Dublin City University studying English Literature, European Integration Studies and Human Resource Management.^[2] Her career to date has her involved in diverse roles, including consultant for the Irish Productivity Centre, Institute of European Affairs researcher and trainer in the Partnership Unit of the Educational and Training Services Trust.^[2]

Originally a member of Fianna Fáil, she left the party in 1998 in opposition to its economic and social policies. Her sister, Joanne, is a member of the republican group éirígí.^[3]

Dáil Éireann[link]

McDonald first ran for office when she unsuccessfully contested the Dublin West constituency for Sinn Féin at the 2002 general election polling 8.02% of first preference votes. She was an unsuccessful candidate in the Dublin Central constituency at the 2007 general election. She contested the Dublin Central again in the 2011 general election this time picking up 13.1% of first preference; she was successful in picking up the last seat in the constituency ahead of the Fianna Fáil candidate Mary Fitzpatrick.^[4]

European Parliament[link]

In 2004 McDonald became Sinn Féin's first Member of the European Parliament in the Republic of Ireland when she was elected at the 2004 European Parliament election for the Dublin constituency, receiving over 60,000 first preference votes.^[5] She served as one of two Sinn Féin MEPs (the other being Bairbre de Brún representing Northern Ireland). During her time in office she led the Sinn Féin "No" campaign against the Treaty of Lisbon, which was rejected in Ireland 2008. McDonald sat as a member of the European Parliament's Employment and Social Affairs Committee, and as a substitute of the Civil Liberties Committee.

For the 2009 European Parliament election, the number of seats for Dublin in the European Parliament were reduced from four to three. McDonald was in a tight race for the last seat against Fianna Fáil's Eoin Ryan and the Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins. McDonald lost her seat to the Socialist Party candidate, being eliminated at the fifth count. Her first preference vote had declined to nearly 48,000.^[6] It was announced that she would be running in Dublin Central in the 2011 General Election, and she was elected as a TD on the eighth count.^[7]

Party activity[link]

She is a member of the Sinn Féin Ard Chomhairle (party leadership), as of 2001,^[8] and is the party's Vice President, replacing Pat Doherty following the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis on 22 February 2009.^[9]

In September 2003, Mary Lou McDonald attracted criticism when she spoke at a rally in Dublin to commemorate Seán Russell, an IRA leader during World War II.^[10][11][12]

References[link]

External links[link]

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Mary Lou (born March 15, 1992) is an American actress. She is known for playing Mary Ferry on the Nickelodeon television series Unfabulous.

Career[link]

At age 8, she chose to pursue a career in television and film.

Mary Lou’s show business career started at age six when she entertained as a member of Singing Solo (a children's singing group located in La Mesa, CA) at a local street fair with a rendition of The Good Ship Lollipop. After this performance, she chose acting as her career. Over the next few years, Lou went on to sing at over two dozen venues throughout Southern California, Texas and Tennessee, winning multiple local, state, regional, national and world championship titles.

Mary Lou also filmed a guest-starring role on Phil of the Future, as a math-nerd named Alex, in Good Phil Hunting. Mary also appeared on Future Girls: Adventures in Marine Biology and Bad Mother's Handbook and guest starred on What should you do?. More recently Mary was on Glee. She continues to audition daily for feature films, television and voiceover.

Personal life[link]

She is the cousin of actress Danneel Harris. Mary Lou was born in California.

Today, Mary Lou is a featured artist at charity events with her live country-western show^{[citation needed]}.

Filmography[link]

External links[link]

• Mary Lou at the Internet Movie Database
• Unfabulous Official Site

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