Michael Ring

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Michael Ring (born December 1953) is an Irish politician, serving as Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) for Mayo. Fine Gael today describes itself as a party of the centre-right in the model of the mainland European Christian democratic parties, committed to developing a wider more pluralistic sense of Irish nationalism.

Ring is generally considered popular, if at times outspoken, by his constitutents. A former auctioneer, he was first elected in a by-election in 1994 and has been returned at every election since. He has served on the Fine Gael frontbench as shadow social and family affairs minister.