Éamon Rooney
Éamon Rooney | |
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Senator | |
In office 23 June 1965 – 5 November 1969 | |
Constituency | Administrative Panel |
Teachta Dála | |
In office February 1948 – April 1965 | |
Constituency | Dublin County |
Personal details | |
Born | County Dublin, Ireland |
Died | 9 November 1993 |
Political party | Fine Gael |
Éamon Rooney (died 9 November 1993) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as a member of the Oireachtas for twenty-one years.
Rooney first stood for election to Dáil Éireann at a by-election on 29 October 1947 for the Dublin County constituency, following the death of the Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) Patrick Fogarty. He was unsuccessful on that occasion, losing to the Clann na Poblachta candidate Seán MacBride, but was elected the following year at the 1948 general election, taking his seat in the 13th Dáil.[1]
He was re-elected at the next four general elections, before losing his seat at the 1965 general election to Fianna Fáil's Des Foley, a 25-year-old gaelic football and hurling star. Rooney was then elected to the 11th Seanad by the Administrative Panel, where he sat until 1969. He stood again as a Dáil candidate at the 1969 general election, but lost again and retired from politics.[2]
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Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | ||||||||
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2nd | 1921 | Michael Derham (SF) | George Gavan Duffy (SF) | Séamus Dwyer (SF) | Desmond FitzGerald (SF) | Frank Lawless (SF) | Margaret Pearse (SF) | 6 seats 1921–1923 | |||||||||
3rd | 1922 | Michael Derham (PT-SF) | George Gavan Duffy (PT-SF) | Thomas Johnson (Lab) | Desmond FitzGerald (PT-SF) | Darrell Figgis (Ind) | John Rooney (FP) | ||||||||||
4th | 1923 | Michael Derham (CnaG) | Bryan Cooper (Ind) | Desmond FitzGerald (CnaG) | John Good (Ind) | Kathleen Lynn (Rep) | Kevin O'Higgins (CnaG) | ||||||||||
1924 by-election | Batt O'Connor (CnaG) | ||||||||||||||||
1926 by-election | William Norton (Lab) | ||||||||||||||||
5th | 1927 (Jun) | Patrick Belton (FF) | Seán MacEntee (FF) | ||||||||||||||
1927 by-election | Gearóid O'Sullivan (CnaG) | ||||||||||||||||
6th | 1927 (Sep) | Bryan Cooper (CnaG) | Joseph Murphy (Ind) | Seán Brady (FF) | |||||||||||||
1930 by-election | Thomas Finlay (CnaG) | ||||||||||||||||
7th | 1932 | Patrick Curran (Lab) | Henry Dockrell (CnaG) | ||||||||||||||
8th | 1933 | John A. Costello (CnaG) | Margaret Mary Pearse (FF) | ||||||||||||||
1935 by-election | Cecil Lavery (FG) | ||||||||||||||||
9th | 1937 | Henry Dockrell (FG) | Gerrard McGowan (Lab) | Patrick Fogarty (FF) | 5 seats 1937–1948 | ||||||||||||
10th | 1938 | Patrick Belton (FG) | Thomas Mullen (FF) | ||||||||||||||
11th | 1943 | Liam Cosgrave (FG) | James Tunney (Lab) | ||||||||||||||
12th | 1944 | Patrick Burke (FF) | |||||||||||||||
1947 by-election | Seán MacBride (CnaP) | ||||||||||||||||
13th | 1948 | Éamon Rooney (FG) | Seán Dunne (Lab) | 3 seats 1948–1961 | |||||||||||||
14th | 1951 | ||||||||||||||||
15th | 1954 | ||||||||||||||||
16th | 1957 | Kevin Boland (FF) | |||||||||||||||
17th | 1961 | Mark Clinton (FG) | Seán Dunne (Ind) | 5 seats 1961–1969 | |||||||||||||
18th | 1965 | Des Foley (FF) | Seán Dunne (Lab) | ||||||||||||||
19th | 1969 | Constituency abolished. See Dublin County North and Dublin County South |