Seán Sherwin

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Seán Sherwin
Teachta Dála
In office
March 1970 – February 1973
ConstituencyDublin South-West
Personal details
Born1946 (age 77–78)
Dublin, Ireland
Political partyFianna Fáil
Other political
affiliations		Aontacht Éireann

Seán Sherwin (born 1946) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician.[1]

He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Dublin South-West constituency at the 1969 general election. However, Dublin South-West's long-serving Labour Party TD Seán Dunne, who had been re-elected at the general election, died only seven days after polling. Sherwin was selected as the Fianna Fáil candidate at the by-election on 4 March 1970, and won, taking his seat in the 19th Dáil.[2]

He resigned from Fianna Fáil in 1971 in the wake of the Arms Crisis, and joined Kevin Boland's new party Aontacht Éireann.[3] The new party failed to take off at the 1973 general election, and Sherwin lost his seat to Fine Gael's Declan Costello.[2]

He later rejoined Fianna Fáil, and at the November 1982 general election he was one of four Fianna Fáil candidate in Dublin West. He won only 2.1% of the first-preference votes and was not elected.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Seán Sherwin". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  2. ^ a b c "Seán Sherwin". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  3. ^ Breakaway Parties Have Poor Record. Carol Coulter. The Irish Times. 22 April 1985.


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