Tony Bromell (1932 – 3 January 2017) was an educationist and
Fianna Fáil politician from
Limerick in
Ireland.
Born in Limerick in 1932, Bromell been a member of Fianna Fáil all his life, and was a member of
Limerick City Council for 17 years, serving as
Mayor of Limerick from 1982 to 1983. He was also briefly a
senator
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, after winning a by-election to the
18th Seanad
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for the
Industrial and Commercial Panel
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on 19 December 1988, following the death of
Fine Gael senator
Jack Daly.
Bromell was registrar in
Mary Immaculate College from 1967 until he retired in 1998. As chair of Chair of Limerick's
Vocational Education Committee (VEC) in 1973, he was heavily involved in the establishment of the College of Art, Commerce and Technology (now
TUS Limerick). He was also a founding member of a pressure group established in 1958 to campaign for a university for Limerick, which resulted the establishment in 1970 of the
National Institute for Higher Education (NIHE), and as a senator he was able to welcome the bill which in 1989 elevated NIHE to
Limerick University
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.
References
1932 births
2017 deaths
Fianna Fáil senators
Members of the 18th Seanad
Mayors of Limerick (city)
Irish educational theorists
Industrial and Commercial Panel senators
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