Early Days
Davies was born in 1963, the son of Teresa Davies and Gethin Davies. Some of his earliest memories are of campaigning in General Elections for his uncle, Ifor Davies, MP for Gower and deputy to Cledwyn Hughes at the Welsh Office in Harold Wilson's Government. Davies went to Gowerton Comprehensive School (where his mother was a secretary), and later achieved a BA (Hons) at Crewe and Alsager College, and an MSc from Swansea Metropolitan University.
After leaving higher education he worked for local authorities in leisure management; and it was while he was working in a sports centre and she was doing aerobics that he met his wife, Joanna Irranca, a member of an Italian family who had come to work in south Wales in the 1950s. On marriage the couple both changed their surnames to Irranca-Davies. Later, Irranca-Davies worked in private sector management, and also spent enjoyable years as a lecturer at Swansea Metropolitan University.
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