Tom Randles is a former hurler from

Kilgarvan Kilgarvan () is a small village in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is situated on the banks of the Roughty River which flows into Kenmare Bay. By car, the village is a ten-minute trip from Kenmare, and thirty minutes from Killarn ...

County Kerry. He played hurling for the

club in the 1950s up to the 1980s, winning County Championships in 1956 and 1958. In 2008, he made headlines by playing a full 60-minute match for

at the age of 71, fifty years after winning his last county championship. He also played football with Kilgarvan.

Politics

Randles unsuccessfully ran for election to

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in the

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area on four different occasions, initially as a

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candidate in

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and

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and as an Independent in

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and 2004. Randles also ran in the

November 1982 Irish general election The November 1982 Irish general election to the 24th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 24 November, three weeks after the dissolution of the 23rd Dáil on 4 November by President Patrick Hillery, on the request of Taoiseach Charles Haughey followin ...

for

, as a running mate to then TD Michael Begley in the constituency of Kerry South. He was again unsuccessful, polling a distant fifth in the three-seat constituency with 2.7% of the vote.

References

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