Brendan Corish

Brendan Corish
Corish in 1949
Tánaiste
In office 14 March 1973 – 5 July 1977
Taoiseach	Liam Cosgrave
Preceded by	Erskine H. Childers
Succeeded by	George Colley
Minister for Health
In office 14 March 1973 – 5 July 1977
Taoiseach	Liam Cosgrave
Preceded by	Erskine Childers
Succeeded by	Charles Haughey
Leader of the Labour Party
In office 2 March 1960 – 26 June 1977
Preceded by	William Norton
Succeeded by	Frank Cluskey
Minister for Social Welfare
In office 14 March 1973 – 5 July 1977
Taoiseach	Liam Cosgrave
Preceded by	Joseph Brennan
Succeeded by	Charles Haughey
In office 2 June 1954 – 20 March 1957
Taoiseach	John A. Costello
Preceded by	James Ryan
Succeeded by	Paddy Smith
Parliamentary Secretary
1948–1951	Defence
1948–1951	Local Government
Teachta Dála
In office December 1945 – February 1982
Constituency	Wexford
Personal details
Born	(1918-11-19)19 November 1918 Wexford, County Wexford, Ireland
Died	17 February 1990(1990-02-17) (aged 71) Wexford, Ireland
Political party	Labour Party
Spouse	Phyllis Donohoe ​ (m. 1949)​
Children	3

Brendan Corish (19 November 1918 – 17 February 1990) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as Tánaiste and Minister for Health from 1973 to 1977, Leader of the Labour Party, Minister for Social Welfare from 1954 to 1957 and from 1973 to 1977, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Local Government from 1948 to 1951. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1948 to 1982.^[1]