Office: | Senator |
Term Start: | 23 June 1965 |
Term End: | 1 June 1973 |
Constituency: | Industrial and Commercial Panel |
Birth Place: | County Clare, Ireland |
Death Date: | 20 July 1986 |
Death Place: | County Clare, Ireland |
Nationality: | Irish |
Party: | Fianna Fáil |
Father: | T. V. Honan |
Relatives: | Carrie Acheson (sister-in-law) |
Children: | 2 |
Dermot Patrick Honan (died 20 July 1986) was a Fianna Fáil politician from County Clare in Ireland who served as a senator for 8 years.[1]
A licensed vintner before entering politics, he was elected in 1965 to the 11th Seanad Éireann on the Industrial and Commercial Panel, and was re-elected in 1969 to the 12th Seanad. He was defeated in the 1973 Seanad election,[1] but his wife Tras Honan was elected as a senator in 1977, and in a 15-year career in Seanad Éireann she was twice elected as Cathaoirleach.[2] His father T. V. Honan had been a senator from 1934 to 1954.[3]