- John Mannion, Jnr
John Martin Mannion (26 October 1944 – 2 April 2006)cite web |url=http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=1&HouseNum=12&MemberID=1521&ConstID=205 |title=John Martin (Jnr.) Mannion |work=Oireachtas Members Database |accessdate=2008-02-14] was an Irish
Fine Gael party politician fromClifden ,County Galway . He was aTeachta Dála (TD} for four years and a senator for 10 years.A farmer, auctioneer and businessman before entering politics, Mannion was a long-serving member of
Galway County Council , and of theWestern Health Board .cite web |url=http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/S/0183/S.0183.200605160003.html |title=Official Report (Seanad Éireann), Volume 183, 16 May 2006, Deaths of Former Members: Expressions of Sympathy |publisher=Oireachtas |accessdate=2008-02-14] He was elected in 1969 to the12th Seanad on theAgricultural Panel , succeeding his fatherJohn Mannion, Snr who had first been elected to the Seanad in 1954.Like his father before him, Mannion found
Connemara a difficult base from which seek election to the Dáil. The Galway West constituency includes the city ofGalway and the western part of the county, and Fine Gael support is stronger in the city than in Connemara. His father had won a seat inDáil Éireann on his first attempt but was not re-elected in four further attempts. Mannion junior stood unsuccessfully for the Dáil at the 1973 general election, but in the subsequent Seanad elections he was returned to the13th Seanad . He was defeated again in the 1975 by-election, but won the seat at the 1977 general election, ousting the sittingFine Gael TD Fintan Coogan in a year which was otherwise a landslide victory forFianna Fail ).cite web |url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2422 |title=John Mannion|work=ElectionsIreland.org |accessdate=2008-01-31]Again like his father, Mannion served only one term in the Dáil; he did not contest the 1981 general election and did not stand for the Dáil again. However, he was re-elected in 1981 to the
15th Seanad and in 1982 to the16th Seanad , and retired from theOireachtas at the 1983 Seanad election. In later years he was crippled witharthritis , and died in 2006, aged 62.References
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