Nationality: | Irish |
Office: | Teachta Dála |
Term Start: | June 1969 |
Term End: | June 1977 |
Term Start1: | April 1965 |
Term End1: | June 1969 |
Term Start2: | March 1957 |
Term End2: | October 1961 |
Constituency2: | Cork Borough |
Office3: | Senator |
Term Start3: | 14 December 1961 |
Term End3: | 7 April 1965 |
Constituency3: | Nominated by the Taoiseach |
Birth Name: | Augustine Anthony Healy |
Birth Date: | 20 May 1904 |
Birth Place: | Cork, Ireland |
Death Place: | Cork, Ireland |
Party: | Fianna Fáil |
Augustine Anthony Healy (20 May 1904 – 10 July 1987) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. A dental laboratory proprietor, Healy was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork Borough constituency at the 1957 general election[1] but lost his seat at the 1961 general election,[2] and was instead nominated by the Taoiseach Seán Lemass to the 10th Seanad.[1] Healy regained his Dáil seat at the 1965 general election and, later representing Cork City South-East, retained his seat until retiring at the 1977 general election.[3]
Commonly known Gus Healy,[4] he served as Lord Mayor of Cork from 1964 to 1965 and from 1975 to 1976.[5]
Healy was a keen amateur swimmer and a member of Sunday's Well Swimming Club. He continued to promote the sport during his mayoralty and the city's first suburban swimming pool, opened in Ballinlough in the 1970s,[6] was named the Gus Healy municipal swimming pool.[7]