Gerry O'Sullivan

Gerry O'Sullivan was an Irish Labour Party politician from Cork. He was a long-serving member of Cork City Council, and was Lord Mayor of Cork from 1986 to 1987.
O'Sullivan was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1989 general election as a Labour Party Teachta Dála for Cork North-Central having topped the poll. He was re-elected at the 1992 general election, receiving 10,008 first preference votes, again topping the poll.
In January 1993, after the formation of a Fianna Fáil–Labour coalition government, he was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of the Marine.
He died in office in August 1994 following a short illness.
The [1994 Cork (city)|Cork North-Central by-election|by-election] for his seat was held on 10 November 1994, and was won by Kathleen Lynch of Democratic Left.
In 1996 the Port of Cork commissioned a new 30m, 176 ton tug and pilot vessel which was christened the M.T. Gerry O'Sullivan in his honour. The boat is usually moored in either Cobh or Ringaskiddy.