Michael Lipper

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Michael Lipper (1 June 1932 – 18 October 1987) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served for four years as an independent TD for the Limerick East constituency.

An employee of CIÉ, Lipper was a long-serving member of Limerick City Council, and served as the city's Mayor from 1973–74. He was an unsuccessful Labour candidate at the 1969 general election, and was defeated again at the 1973 election, in both cases trailing behind the incumbent Labour TD Stephen Coughlan.

After serving as Mayor of Limerick from 1973–1974[1], Lipper stood as a 'Democratic Labour' Candidate ^[1] at the 1977 general election, unseating his party colleague Stephen Coughlan. After returning to the Labour Party, he lost his seat at the next general election, in 1981, to the independent socialist candidate, Jim Kemmy. At the February 1982 election, Kemmy held the seat with an increased vote. Lipper did not stand for Dáil Éireann again.