Éamon Rooney (died 9 November 1993) was an Irish

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politician who served as a member of the

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for twenty-one years. Rooney first stood for election to

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at a

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on 29 October 1947 for the Dublin County constituency, following the death of the

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(TD) Patrick Fogarty. He was unsuccessful on that occasion, losing to the

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candidate

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, but was elected the following year at the 1948 general election, taking his seat in the

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. He was re-elected at the next four general elections, before losing his seat at the 1965 general election to Fianna Fáil's

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, a 25-year-old

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and

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star. Rooney was then elected to the 11th Seanad by the

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, where he sat until 1969. He stood again as a Dáil candidate at the 1969 general election, but lost again and retired from politics.

References

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