Brian Crowley

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Brian Crowley (born 4 March 1964) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and a Member of the European Parliament for South. He is co-president of the Union for a Europe of Nations group in the European Parliament in which Fianna Fáil sits. He is a wheelchair user.

Crowley was born in Dublin in 1964. He received a diploma in law in 1992, and the following year he was elected to the 20th Seanad Éireann. At the 1994 European elections he was elected to the Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Munster constituency. He has retained his seat in the two subsequent elections. Since 1997 Crowley has been a member of Ireland's Council of State.

His father, Flor Crowley (1934–1997) served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for various Cork constituencies for most of the period between the 1965 general election and the Feb 1982 election.

[edit] See also

• Families in the Oireachtas

[edit] External links

• Official Website
• ElectionsIreland - Florence Crowley

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