- Flor Crowley
Florence "Flor" Crowley (27 December 1934 – 16 May 1997) was a
Fianna Fáil politician fromWest Cork in Ireland. He was aTeachta Dála (TD) for thirteen years, and a senator for five years.cite web |url=http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=1&HouseNum=14&MemberID=265&ConstID=204 |title=Mr. Flor Crowley |work=Oireachtas Members Database |accessdate=2008-02-25]Family
An auctioneer from
Bandon , Crowley was an accomplished rugby player in his youth. He and his wife Sally had six children.cite web |url=http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/1997/0517/97051700022.html |title=Death of Mr Flor Crowley |author= |date=17 May 2007 |work=The Irish Times |accessdate=2008-02-20] Their son Brian (born 1964) is a former Fianna Fáil senator, and has been aMember of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1994.cite web |url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?id=4174 |title=Brian Crowley's electoral history |work=ElectionsIreland.org |accessdate=2008-02-25]Political career
He stood unsuccessfully as a Fianna Fáil candidate for
Dáil Éireann in the Cork Mid constituency at a by-election in March 1965, but won the seat at the 1965 general election in April. After boundary changes for the 1969 general election, he was re-elected in the new Cork South West constituency, and held the seat at the 1973 general election.cite web |url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=4046 |title=Flor Crowley's electoral history |work=ElectionsIreland.org |accessdate=2008-02-25] Meanwhile, he had been elected in 1967 as a member of bothCork City Council andCork County Council , and after the 1971 local elections had remained a member only of the County Council.cite news |url=http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/archive/1982/0511/Pg006.html |title=Taoiseach's nominees to the Senate |date=11 May 1982 |page=6 |work=The Irish Times |accessdate=2008-02-07]He lost his seat at the 1977 general election. Fianna Fáil won a landslide victory, but it had fielded three candidates in Cork South West and won only one seat. Crowley, the sitting TD, was beaten by his party colleague Joe Walsh. He was then elected to the
14th Seanad Éireann on theCultural and Educational Panel , and at the 1981 general he regained his Dáil seat from Walsh. Walsh retook the seat at the February 1992 general election, following which Crowley stood in the Seanad elections on theCultural and Educational Panel . However, he did not win a seat; at the time Fianna Fáil was deeply divided between supporters and opponents of its leaderCharles Haughey , and the Haughey-supporting Crowley was beaten by another Fianna Fáil candidate,Séamus de Brún , who had previously been nominated by the then-Taoiseach,Jack Lynch to the14th Seanad . [cite news |url=http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/archive/1982/0422/Pg001.html |title=Senate defeat for Flor Crowley |author=Denis Coghlan |date=22 April 1982 |page=1 |work=The Irish Times |accessdate=2008-02-07] Crowley was then nominated by Haughey to the 16th Seanad.Crowley did not contest the November 1982 general election. In the subsequent February 1983 Seanad elections, he stood as a candidate on the
Administrative Panel , but did not win a seat. [cite news |url=http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/archive/1983/0203/Pg006.html |title=Senate results |date=2 March 1983 |page=6 |work=The Irish Times |accessdate=2008-02-07]Death
Crowley died suddenly at his home in Bandon on 16 May 1997, aged 62.cite web |url=http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/1997/0519/97051900083.htmll |title=Ahern praises Flor Crowley |author= |date=19 May 2007 |work=The Irish Times |accessdate=2008-02-20]
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