Presidents
| Year | President | Union |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | John Conroy | Irish Transport and General Workers' Union |
| 1960 | James Larkin, Jnr | Workers' Union of Ireland |
| 1961 | Norman Kennedy | Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union |
| 1962 | W. J. Fitzpatrick | Irish Union of Distributive Workers and Clerks |
| 1963 | Jack Macgougan | National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers |
| 1964 | Charles McCarthy | Vocational Teachers' Association |
| 1965 | Dominick Murphy | Transport Salaried Staffs' Association |
| 1966 | Fintan Kennedy | Irish Transport and General Workers' Union |
| 1967 | Bob Thompson | General and Municipal Workers' Union |
| 1968 | John Conroy | Irish Transport and General Workers' Union |
| 1969 | Jimmy Dunne | Marine Port and General Workers' Union |
| 1970 | James Morrow | Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers |
| 1971 | Maurice Cosgrave | Post Office Workers' Union |
| 1972 | Jim Cox | Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers |
| 1972–73 | Stephen McGonagle | Irish Transport and General Workers' Union |
| 1974 | Denis Larkin | Workers' Union of Ireland |
| 1975 | Andy Barr | National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers |
| 1976 | Matt Griffin | Irish National Teachers' Organisation |
| 1977 | Brendan Harkin | Northern Ireland Civil Service Alliance |
| 1977–78 | John Mulhall | Irish National Painters' and Decorator's Trade Union |
| 1979 | Harold O'Sullivan | Local Government and Public Services Union |
| 1980 | Jack Curlis | General and Municipal Workers' Union |
| 1981 | Dan Murphy | Civil Service Executive Union |
| 1982 | David Wylie | Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers |
| 1983 | Patrick Cardiff | Federated Workers' Union of Ireland |
| 1984 | James Graham | Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers |
| 1985 | Matt Merrigan | Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union |
| 1986 | Jim McCusker | Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance |
| 1987 | John Carroll | Irish Transport and General Workers' Union |
| 1988 | William Wallace | National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers |
| 1989 | Gerry Quigley | Irish National Teachers' Organisation |
| 1990 | Jimmy Blair | Amalgamated Engineering Union |
| 1991 | Chris Kirwan | Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union |
| 1991–93 | Tom Douglas | GMB Union |
| 1993–95 | Phil Flynn | Irish Municipal, Public and Civil Trade Union |
| 1995–97 | John Freeman | Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union |
| 1997–99 | Edmund Browne | Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union |
| 1999–2001 | Inez McCormack | UNISON |
| 2001–03 | Joe O'Toole | Irish National Teachers' Organisation |
| 2003–05 | Brendan Mackin | Amicus |
| 2005–07 | Peter McLoone | Irish Municipal, Public and Civil Trade Union |
| 2007–09 | Patricia McKeown | UNISON |
| 2009–11 | Jack O'Connor | Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union |
| 2011–present | Eugene McGlone | Unite |
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Famous quotes containing the word presidents:
“Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumbler and begin to poke around for rumours of another Messiah.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)