Micheál Martin - Current leader of the Fianna Fáil political party and former minister for Foreign Affairs, Education and Health, resides in Ballinlough.
Former MLA Gerry McHugh, who had defected from Sinn Féin in 2007 and had joined Fianna Fáil as in individual member, but did not contest the 2011 Assembly elections.
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Another native of Tassan, Clontibret was Senator John Brennan, a Fianna Fáil member of Seanad Éireann from 1960 until 1977 and a member of Monaghan Co Council from 1942 until 1974.
Many well-known Irish names have attended the school, such as Micheál Martin, the current leader of Fianna Fáil, footballers Denis Irwin and Damien Delaney, Green Party Senator Dan Boyle, athlete Marcus O'Sullivan and world champion, Robert Heffernan and former Cork senior football manager and former allstar Billy Morgan (Gaelic footballer).
Conor Lenihan (born 3 March 1963) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician and currently a Vice President of the Skolkovo Foundation.
His father James Geoghegan was a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála representing Longford–Westmeath from 1930 to 1937 and Minister for Justice, Attorney General, and judge of the Supreme Court.
Gibbons came in eight place in the five-seater constituency, behind two other unsuccessful candidates: sitting Fianna Fáil TD M. J. Nolan and the Green Party's Mary White.
However, the new owner John G. Larkin, has links with Dessie Larkin, the Fianna Fáil mayor and councillor (Gormley was in coalition with Fianna Fáil at this time).
In an interview with TheJournal.ie, Gogarty was reported to have claimed that he was considering changing parties to Fianna Fáil saying that "I haven’t finished with the Greens. I am very much green to the core, but in terms of getting political objectives achieved, I have not made up my mind with whether I will go back into politics, whether the Green Party has a chance to recover or whether we need a strong green element in some other organisation".
In addition, various Fianna Fáil backbenchers were also known to be unhappy with the programme; TD for Westmeath, Donnie Cassidy, threatened to call Hobbs and RTÉ management before a committee to explain their behaviour.
At the centre of the show was the relationship between the then Taoiseach Charles Haughey and "P. J." "Mara", a fantasy figure based loosely on the Fianna Fáil political advisor P. J. Mara.
The by-election caused by his death was held on 30 May 1940 and was won by John J. Keane of Fianna Fáil.
In 2001, the political career of Fianna Fáil minister Joe Jacob was destroyed when he was unable to explain to Finucane and her listeners what people should do in the event of a nuclear explosion at Sellafield.
After airing an interview with Fianna Fáil politicians Charlie O'Connor and Darragh O'Brien, recorded outside Leinster House following the vote of confidence in then Taoiseach Brian Cowen, Browne popped up onscreen back in the studio and remarked: "God, it would do your head in, wouldn't it?".
Seán Sherwin, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South–West, was the only serving member of the Dáil to join Aontacht Éireann.
Robert Troy, Politician and Member of Dáil Éireann since 2011 as a representative of the Fianna Fáil party.
Brian Lenihan, Snr (1930–1995), long-serving Irish Fianna Fáil politician
His son Brian Lenihan, Jnr (1959-2011), also an Irish Fianna Fáil politician
In January 2011, he was selected as a Fianna Fáil candidate in Dublin Central for the 2011 general election along with Mary Fitzpatrick.
In late 2005, Brady and his brother Royston, a former Lord Mayor of Dublin and unsuccessful candidate for the European Parliament, were both reported to be in contention for a Fianna Fáil nomination in the Dublin Central constituency.
His daughter Mary Fitzpatrick, a Fianna Fáil member of Dublin City Council, was one of three Fianna Fáil candidates in Dublin Central for the 2007 general election.
On 15 April 2009, Byrne was nominated as a Fianna Fáil candidate (along with Eoin Ryan) for the Dublin constituency at the 2009 European Parliament election which was held on 5 June 2009 but she was not elected.
His son Eoin Ryan, Jnr (born 1953), Irish Fianna Fáil politician, Member of the European Parliament, former Teachta Dála (TD)
Eoin Ryan, Snr (1920–2001), Irish Fianna Fáil politician, senator 1957–1987
Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905–1974), Fianna Fáil minister who became President of Ireland, son of the above
The students chanted slogans such as "no cutbacks, no fees, no Fianna Fáil TDs" and carried a variety of posters such as "the Batt-man is Robin students", whilst one waved a placard advertising his "Ford Fiesta for sale" followed by his mobile number.
This strategy was criticised by Fianna Fáil Minister for Children, Barry Andrews.
In 1979, Fianna Fáil's economic policies were derailed due to strikes, higher wage demands, and the 1979 energy crisis.
James B. Lynch (died 1954), Irish Fianna Fáil Party politician, TD and Senator
John J. McGuinness (born 1955), Irish Fianna Fáil Party politician, TD for Carlow-Kilkenny 1997–
It is widely believed that Mac Giolla was cheated by Fianna Fáil in the election; the emergence of information that the since disgraced and jailed George Redmond was one of the local government officials who conducted the election count has added weight to this view.
Mark Killilea, Snr (1896–1970), Irish Fianna Fáil Party politician, TD and Senator
His son Mark Killilea, Jnr (born 1939), also an Irish Fianna Fáil Party politician, TD and Senator and MEP
Her father, Des Hanafin, as well as being a senator for Fianna Fáil, was a founding member of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) and a staunch opponent of contraception, abortion and divorce.
He is the elder brother of Bertie Ahern and Noel Ahern, both of whom served as Fianna Fáil TDs, Bertie Ahern having served as Taoiseach from 1997–2008.
Comyn received the votes of his eighteen Fianna Fáil colleagues, all the votes of the seven Labour Party Senators and the votes of three Independents: Sir Edward Bellingham, 5th Baronet, Thomas Linehan and Laurence O'Neill.
Michael O'Kennedy (born 1936), Irish Fianna Fáil politician from Tipperary
Michael F. Kitt (1914–1974), Irish Fianna Fáil politician and long-serving Teachta Dála
Paudge Brennan (Patrick Brennan, 1922–1998), Irish Fianna Fáil TD and Senator
P. J. Morley (born 1931), former Irish Fianna Fáil politician from County Mayo
He contested the 1973 general election as an independent candidate, but he lost his seat to Fianna Fáil's Ciarán Murphy.
Bob Aylward (1911–1974), Irish Fianna Fáil politician, senator from 1973–1974
His son Bobby Aylward (born 1955), Irish Fianna Fáil politician, TD 2007—
Having left Fianna Fáil Brady was publicly courted by Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny who is quoted as saying “ He's going to join up, He's a man of energy, drive and commitment.”
The early 1930s saw increasing clashes between the IRA and the General Eoin O’Duffy’s Blueshirts, At the 1934 IRA General Army Convention differences began to arise between those who thought that fighting Irish fascism in the form of the Blueshirts was the most important task for the IRA and those who believed that the Fianna Fáil government was using these clashes to turn against, and clamp down on the IRA.
Speaking in Leinster House, seat of the Irish Oireachtas, Roddy Connolly (veteran of the Tan War and Civil War, Labour Party T.D. and son of James Connolly) raised McCool's plight when discussing the effects that censorship implemented by the Fianna Fáil government were having on McCool's election campaign, namely that the Fianna Fáil government had censored one of McCool's election advertisements.
'When I open the pages, I duck' was Brendan Behan’s description of reading the Sunday Press, for the habit of published memoirs of veterans (usually those aligned to Fianna Fáil) of the War of Independence.