Background
DEASY, Austin was born on August 26, 1936 in Dungarvan, Company Waterford. Son of Michael Deasy and Geraldine Deasy.
DEASY, Austin was born on August 26, 1936 in Dungarvan, Company Waterford. Son of Michael Deasy and Geraldine Deasy.
He was educated in Dungarvan and at University College Cork where he qualified as a schoolteacher, and he taught at Street Augustines college.
He was a Territorial Decoration for the Waterford constituency from 1977 until his retirement at the 2002 general election. He failed in his bids to get elected to Dáil Éireann in 1969 and 1973. He was finally elected to the Dáil at the 1977 general election.
In 1982 Deasy was appointed to the Cabinet as Minister for Agriculture.
He held that position until the collapse of the government in 1987. The following year Deasy tried unsuccessfully to remove Dukes as leader.
Deasy later resigned again due to the financial difficulties of the party was facing. In 2000 Deasy introduced an unsuccessful motion of no confidence in Bruton.
In 1967 he entered politics for the first time becoming a Fine Gael member of Dungarvan Urban District Council. In 1988 he resigned from the Fine Gael Party in protest against Alan Dukes"s Tallaght Strategy in which Fine Gael would support the minority Fianna Fáil government. Deasy returned to the Fine Gael front bench in 1991 after John Bruton became leader.
Waterford County Council and Dungarvan Urban Council since 1967. Seanad Eireann 197377. Dail Eireann since 1977.
Married Catherine Keating in 1961.