Hugh Gibbons

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Hugh Gibbons (born 1916) is a retired Irish Fianna Fáil party politician who sat in Dáil Éireann as a TD for twelve years, from 1965–1977.

A medical doctor before entering politics, Gibbons was elected on his first attempt, when he stood as a Fianna Fáil candidate in the Roscommon constituency at the 1965 general election. After constituency changes under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1969, he was re-elected at the 1969 general election in the new Roscommon-Leitrim constituency. He was returned to the Dáil again at the 1973 election, but did not contest the 1977 general election and retired from politics.