Office: | Teachta Dála |
Term Start: | February 2011 |
Term End: | February 2016 |
Constituency: | Dublin Mid-West |
Birth Date: | 11 May 1953 |
Birth Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Nationality: | Irish |
Party: | Labour Party |
Children: | 2 |
Education: | The King's Hospital |
Robert Dowds (born 11 May 1953) is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Mid-West constituency from 2011 to 2016.[1] [2]
He was a member of South Dublin County Council for the Clondalkin electoral area from 1999 to 2011. He was re-elected at the 2004 local elections, serving as Mayor of South Dublin County Council from 2004 to 2005, and re-elected again at the 2009 local elections.[2]
He did not contest the 2016 general election.[3]
He attempted to get re-elected to South Dublin County Council in 2019, but was unsuccessful by a margin of 39 votes.[2]
A member of the Church of Ireland,[4] he went on scholarship to The King's Hospital private school in Dublin,[5] and was also educated at Trinity College Dublin and St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra.