Alan Shatter

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Alan Joseph Shatter (born 14 February 1951) is an Irish lawyer, author and former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defence from 2011 to 2014. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South constituency from 1981 to 2002 and from 2007 to 2016. He left Fine Gael in early 2018 and ran as an independent candidate at the 2024 general election, but was not elected. Since his retirement from politics, he has published Life is a Funny Business (2017), Frenzy and Betrayal: The Anatomy of a Political Assassination (2019) and Cyril's Lottery of Life (2023) He has had occasional opinion articles published in The Irish Times, the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent, the Business Post, the Jerusalem Post and the Times of Israel. He is chairperson of the Inheritance Tax Reform Campaign and of Magen David Adom Ireland. He is also a board member of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations.

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