Brendan Griffin | |
Office: | Teachta Dála |
Term Start: | February 1973 |
Term End: | June 1989 |
Constituency: | Tipperary South |
Birth Date: | 28 August 1935 |
Birth Place: | County Tipperary, Ireland |
Party: | Fine Gael |
Brendan Griffin (born 28 August 1935) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician. A national schoolteacher by profession, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Tipperary South constituency at the 1969 general election. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) for Tipperary South at the 1973 general election, replacing party colleague Patrick Hogan who had died the previous October.[1]
He was re-elected at each subsequent general election until he lost his seat at the 1989 general election to Fine Gael running-mate Theresa Ahearn, despite gaining more first preference votes than her.[2] He later served as a member of South Tipperary County Council from 1991 to 2004.