Michael Enright was a Democratic Left politician from County Wexford in Ireland.
Career
He joined the Workers" Party in 1982 and was elected to Wexford Corporation in 1985. He remained a councillor until his death 12 years later. He died aged 45 on 16 October 1997.
He was returning from a Teastas meeting in Dublin when his car was involved in a head-on-collision near Arklow with a vehicle traveling at high speeds without lights.
Tributes were paid to him in both the Dáil and the Seanad.
Politics
An officer of Wexford Council of Trade Unions, he joined the Labour Party in 1973, and in the 1979 local elections he stood as a candidate for the Socialist Labour Party.
Membership
He was a member of Wexford Corporation and served briefly as a senator in 1997. When the Workers" Party split in 1992, he joined the breakaway Democratic Left, later becoming a members of the party"s executive committee. In June 1997, Enright was nominated by the Taoiseach, John Bruton as member of the outgoing 20th Seanad, serving until the elections in August for the 21st Seanad.
He had been a member of Teastas, the Irish National Certification Authority, since it was set up in 1995.