- Stephen Coughlan
Stephen Coughlan (26 December 1910 – 20 December 1994) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served for eighteen years as
Teachta Dála (TD) for the Limerick East constituency.Coughlan stood for election as a
Clann na Poblachta candidate at the 1954 general election, when he won the second-highest number of first-preference votes, but failed to win enough transfers to secure any of the four seats. He stood again for Clann na Poblachta at the 1957 general election, but his vote had fell significantly and he was again unsuccessful.At Clann na Poblachta disintegrated in the late 1950s, Coughlan joined the Labour Party and was elected as a Labour candidate at the 1961 general election taking his seat in the
17th Dáil . He was returned toDáil Éireann at the next three elections, but lost his seat in the 1977 general election to a former Labour party running-mate,Michael Lipper , who stood as an independent.As well as his career in the Dáil, Coughlan was also a long-serving member of
Limerick City Council , and was theMayor of Limerick from 1969–1970.External links
* [http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2512 Stephen Coughlan's electoral history] (ElectionsIreland.org)
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