Seán Brosnan (21 December 1916 – 18 April 1979) was an Irish barrister and

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politician. He served for 10 years in the

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, as a

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(TD) and as a

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. Brosnan was a native of

Dingle Dingle (Irish: ''An Daingean'' or ''Daingean Uí Chúis'', meaning "fort of Ó Cúis") is a town in County Kerry, Ireland. The only town on the Dingle Peninsula, it sits on the Atlantic coast, about southwest of Tralee and northwest of Killa ...

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. He was a prominent Gaelic footballer and won 3 All-Ireland medals with

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. In 1939, he was captain of the team but could not play in the final due to influenza. In 1933, he won an All-Ireland Minor Football Championship with

. He won senior Kerry County Championship medals with

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in 1938 and 1941. He left Dingle in the autumn of 1939.Seán Brosnan, an appreciation by Micheal Ó Ruairc; The Kerryman, 4 May 1979 At the 1969 general election, Brosnan was elected to the

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as a TD for Cork North-East. It was his second attempt – he had been defeated in

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– and he lost his seat at the 1973 general election. He was then elected to the 13th Seanad Éireann on the

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, but he regained his Dáil seat in a by-election in November 1974 after the death of his Fianna Fáil colleague

Liam Ahern Liam Ahern (12 January 1916 – 13 July 1974), also known as William Ahern, was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served in both Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann. Early and personal life Ahern's father, Eamon Ahern (1882–1953), was a me ...

. Brosnan was re-elected at the 1977 general election to the

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, and also served as a

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(MEP). MEPs were at that time appointed by national parliaments rather than being elected, and Brosnan was one of a 10-member delegation from the

until the first direct elections in 1979. After his death in 1979, the resulting by-election on 7 November was won for

Fine Gael Fine Gael (, ; English: "Family (or Tribe) of the Irish") is a liberal-conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Ireland. Fine Gael is currently the third-largest party in the Republic of Ireland in terms of members of Dáil � ...

Myra Barry Myra Barry (born 30 June 1957) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1979 to 1987. A national school teacher by profession, she trained at St Patrick's College, Dublin. She was first elected to Dáil � ...

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