Daniel Moloney

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Daniel J. Moloney (1909 – 26th June 1963) was an Irish Fianna Fáil Party politician who served one term as a TD for Kerry North and was then a Senator.

A former motor trader, Moloney was elected to Dáil Éireann on his first attempt, at the 1957 general election, taking his seat in the 16th Dáil. The seat had been won at the previous election for Clann na Poblachta by Johnny Connor, and retained at the by-election after Connor's death by his daughter Kathleen O'Connor, who did not stand in 1957.

The Kerry North constituency was reduced from four seats to three at the 1961 general election, and Moloney was the only outgoing TD not to be re-elected. His Fianna Fáil colleague Tom McEllistrim, Snr was returned to the 17th Dáil, the other seats going to Labour's Dan Spring and the independent TD Patrick Finucane.

After the loss of his Dáil seat, Moloney was elected to the 10th Seanad on the Industrial and Commercial Panel. Howevever, he died two years later, on 26th June 1963, and the by-election for his seat in the Seanad was won by John Costelloe.^[1]

[edit] External links

• Daniel Moloney's electoral history (ElectionsIreland.org)

[edit] Notes

1. ^ The sources are amiguous about the name of the victor of the Seanad Industrial and Commercial Panel by-election on 28th November 1963. The Oireachtas members database list his name as "John Costello", but the record of Seanad proceedings names the new senator as "John Costelloe", and the latter spelling is also used in the record of the first Seanad division in which he voted, and in subsequent proceedings.

This page incorporates information from the Oireachtas Members Database