Brendan Crinion Explained

Office:Teachta Dála
Term Start:February 1973
Term End:February 1982
Constituency:Meath
Term Start1:October 1961
Term End1:June 1969
Office2:Senator
Term Start2:5 November 1969
Term End2:28 February 1973
Constituency2:Nominated by the Taoiseach
Birth Date:11 November 1923
Birth Place:County Kildare, Ireland
Party:Fianna Fáil

Brendan Crinion (11 November 1923 – 2 July 1989) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served for more than twenty years as a Teachta Dála (TD) and as a Senator.[1]

A farmer before entering politics, Crinion was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD for the Kildare constituency at the 1961 general election.[2] He was returned for Kildare at the 1965 general election, but after boundary changes[3] for the 1969 general election he stood in the neighbouring Meath constituency. He was defeated there, but was then nominated by the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, to the 12th 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.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Brendan Crinion. Oireachtas Members Database. 15 September 2012. 2018-11-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20181107225138/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Brendan-Crinion.D.1961-10-11. live.
  2. Web site: Brendan Crinion. ElectionsIreland.org. 15 September 2012. 25 September 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120925025107/http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2691. live.
  3. The 1961 constituency boundaries had incorporated the areas of County Meath around Dunshaughlin and Trim in the Kildare constituency; but the 1969 boundary changes placed those districts in the Meath constituency, along with the Kildare districts of Edenderry and Celbridge.