- Kieran Crotty
Kieran Crotty (born 30 August 1930) was a former Irish
Fine Gael party politician who served for twenty years asTeachta Dála (TD) for the constituency of Carlow-Kilkenny. [cite web |url=http://oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=25&MemberID=262&ConstID=20 |title=Mr Kieran Crotty |work=Oireachtas Members Database |accessdate=2008-10-07]Crotty was first elected to the19th Dáil in the 1969 general election. His fatherPatrick Crotty was a TD for Carlow-Kilkenny from 1948 to 1969. [cite news
url=http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/business/Kieran-Crotty-to-win-lifetime.3936495.jp
title=Kieran Crotty to win lifetime award at business Oscars
date=2008-04-01
accessdate=2008-07-15]He was re-elected six times, in the 1973, 1977, 1981, February 1982, November 1982 and 1987 general elections. He did not contest the 1989 general election. [cite web
url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2814
title=Kieran Crotty
publisher=ElectionsIreland.org
accessdate=2008-10-07]He was elected as Mayor of
Kilkenny for six one-year-terms between 1970 and 1995. [cite web
url=http://www.kilkennycity.ie/eng/Your_Council/The_Sovereigns_and_Mayors_of_Kilkenny_1282-2003/
title=The Sovereigns and Mayors of Kilkenny 1282-2003
publisher=Kilkenny Borough Council
accessdate=2008-10-07]ee also
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