Colm M. Hilliard (28 May 1936 – 14 January 2002) was an Irish

Fianna Fáil Fianna Fáil (, ; meaning 'Soldiers of Destiny' or 'Warriors of Fál'), officially Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party ( ga, audio=ga-Fianna Fáil.ogg, Fianna Fáil – An Páirtí Poblachtánach), is a conservative and Christian- ...

politician who sat for fifteen years as

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(TD) for Meath. He was elected to

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at the February 1982 general election, replacing retiring Labour Party TD James Tully, and giving Fianna Fáil three out of five Meath seats in the

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. He was re-elected at the next four general elections, until his retirement from the Dáil at the 1997 general election, when

Johnny Brady John Brady (born 1 January 1948) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1997 to 2007 for the Meath constituency, and then from 2007 to 2011 for the Meath West constituency after the Meath constituency was ...

retained the seat for Fianna Fáil. Hilliard was nominated to contested the 1997 elections to the 21st Seanad Éireann on the

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, but as he was recovering from surgery did not contest. Despite this he received two first-preference votes in the election. He served as Chairman of the

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Joint Services Committee from 1987 to 1992. His father

Michael Hilliard Michael Leo Hilliard (11 March 1903 – 3 August 1982) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was born 11 March 1903 in Navan, County Meath, fifth child of James Hilliard, a farmer and cattle dealer, and Mary Hilliard (née O'Brien). He was ...

, had been a TD for Meath for thirty years, and was a Cabinet minister in the 1960s. He worked as a livestock marketing manager, auctioneer and accountant. He played on the Meath senior Gaelic football and hurling teams.

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