Why Robert Dowds is on this page

Heritage: Born 11 May 1953 in Ireland; served as Labour TD for Dublin Mid-West and as a South Dublin County Councillor for Clondalkin. Direct documented Irish-born lineage.

Robert Dowds (born 11 May 1953) is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála for the Dublin Mid-West constituency from 2011 to 2016, the term of the Fine Gael–Labour coalition government that managed Ireland’s post-bailout recovery. Before entering Dáil Éireann he had served as a member of South Dublin County Council for the Clondalkin electoral area from 1999 to 2011, building the local base that carried him into national politics in the 2011 general election. Dowds lost his Dáil seat in the Labour Party’s heavy defeat at the 2016 general election.

Heritage notes

Family root: Ireland — irish-born-confirmed.

The directory threads Robert Dowds back to the O'Dubhda clan story via the surname-variants reality — the same family carried these spellings as it scattered. See the septs and the diaspora for the wider pattern, or the Clan DNA Project for the genetic connections being mapped now.