Maurice O'Connell | |
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Senator | |
In office 8 October 1981 –23 February 1983 | |
Constituency | Labour Panel |
Personal details | |
Born | Penang,Malaysia | 20 October 1936
Political party | Fine Gael |
Relatives | William Hickie (great uncle) |
Maurice O'Connell (born 20 October 1936) is a former senator in Ireland. He was born in Penang,Malaysia.
At the 1969 general election,stood unsuccessfully as an independent candidate in the Dublin South-Central constituency. [1]
He later joined Fine Gael and served in the Seanad from 1981 to 1983,elected to the short-lived 15th Seanad and 16th Seanad on the Labour Panel. [2] He was defeated in the 1983 election to the 17th Seanad. [2]
His great uncle William Hickie served as a senator from 1925 to 1936.
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