The Business and Professional Group (also known as the Businessmen's Party) was a minor political party in the

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that existed between 1922 and 1923. It largely comprised ex- Unionist businessmen and professionals.Barberis, McHugh and Tyldesley (2005), p. 206 It fielded five candidates in

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and

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at the 1922 general election. One candidate,

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, was elected. At the 1923 general election, company directors John Good and William Hewat were elected in Dublin under the label of Businessmen's Party. Andrew O'Shaughnessy and

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were elected under the label of ''Cork Progressive Association'' (CPA). Both CPA members however sat in the

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and in 1924 both took the

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.John M. Regan, ''The Irish Counter-Revolution 1921-1936'', Gill & Macmillan, 1999, p. 223 The group's support base was largely

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; its policies were pro-

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and pro-economic orthodoxy, including low taxes and the

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. It did not contest any general elections after 1923.

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