- Brendan Crinion
Brendan Crinion (11 November 1923 – 2 July 1989) was an Irish
Fianna Fáil Party politician who served for more than twenty years as a TD and as a Senator.A farmer before entering politics, Crinion was first elected to
Dáil Éireann at the 1961 general election, in the Kildare constituency, taking his seat in the17th Dáil . He was returned for Kildare at the 1965 election, but after boundary changesThe [http://193.178.1.79:80/gen161961a.html 1961 constituency boundaries] had incorporated the areas ofCounty Meath aroundDunshaughlin and Trim in the Kildare constituency; but the [http://193.178.1.79:80/gen11969a.html 1969 boundary changes] placed those districts in the Meath constituency, along with the Kildare districts of Edenderry andCelbridge .] for the 1969 general election he stood in the neighbouring Meath constituency. He was defeated there, but was thennominated by the Taoiseach ,Jack Lynch , to the12th Seanad .At the next general election, in 1973, he stood again in Meath, unseating the long-serving Fianna Fáil TD
Michael Hilliard . Crinion was re-elected in Meath at the 1977 general election and again in 1981 general election, before retiring from politics at the February 1982 general election.External links
* [http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?id=2691 Brendan Crinion's electoral history] (ElectionsIreland.org)
*Oireachtas-database
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