Office: | Senator |
Term Start: | 23 June 2007 |
Term End: | 13 September 2007 |
Constituency: | Nominated by the Taoiseach |
Birth Date: | 1 May 1924 |
Birth Place: | County Louth, Ireland |
Death Place: | County Louth, Ireland |
Party: | Fianna Fáil |
Spouse: | Una Sands |
Children: | 7 |
Peter Sands (1 May 1924 – 17 October 2015) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who briefly served as a member of the 22nd Seanad.[1] He was nominated by the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, on 23 June 2007, to fill a vacancy left by the election of Brendan Kenneally to the Dáil at the 2007 general election.[2] He was not nominated to the 23rd Seanad.
Sands was a lifelong trade unionist and former president of the Local Government and Public Services Union. He was a director of elections for Fianna Fáil in County Louth.
Sands died on 17 October 2015.[3] [4]