Richard Hourigan

Richard Hourigan

Richard V. Hourigan (born April 1939)cite web |url=http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=1&HouseNum=17&MemberID=1386&ConstID=205 |title=Mr. Richard V. Hourigan |work=Oireachtas Members Database |accessdate=2008-02-11] is a former a Fine Gael politician from County Limerick in Ireland. He was a senator for most of the years from 1982 to 1992. Educated at St. Munchin's College, Limerick and later at University College Dublin, Richard Hourigan had a reputation as a formidable speaker, winning the President's Gold Medal for Oratory while at UCD. Jim Farrelly's Who's Who in Irish Politics, 1990-1991, described Mr. Hourigan as “an able, witty speaker who is extremely knowledgeable on farming and on farmer politics”.

Hourigan stood unsuccessfully as a Fine Gael candidate for Dáil Éireann in the Limerick East constituency at the 1981 general elections. In 1982, he was elected to the 16th Seanad Éireann on the Agricultural Panel, and was re-elected in 1983 to the 17th Seanad, serving until the 1987 elections. He was re-elected at the 1989 election to the 19th Seanad, but was defeated at the 1993 Seanad elections, and failed to regain the seat when he stood again in 1997.cite web |url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=3373 |title=Richard Hourigan |work=ElectionsIreland.org |accessdate=2008-02-11]

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