Gerry O'Sullivan

Who was Gerry O'Sullivan?

Gerry O'Sullivan was an Irish Labour Party politician from Cork. He was a long-serving member of Cork City Council, and was Lord Mayor of Cork from 1986 to 1987.

O'Sullivan was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1989 general election as a Labour Party Teachta Dála for Cork North–Central having topped the poll. He was re-elected at the 1992 general election, receiving 10,008 first preference votes, again topping the poll.

He served as Minister of State at the Department of the Marine from January 1993 until his death following a short illness in August 1994.