Augustine Anthony Healy (20 May 1904 – 10 July 1987) was an Irish

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politician. A dental laboratory proprietor, Healy was elected to

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as a Fianna Fáil

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(TD) for the Cork Borough constituency at the 1957 general election but lost his seat at the 1961 general election, and was instead

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Seán Lemass Seán Francis Lemass (born John Francis Lemass; 15 July 1899 – 11 May 1971) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach and Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1959 to 1966. He also served as Tánaiste from 1957 to 1959, 1951 to 1954 ...

to the

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. Healy regained his Dáil seat at the 1965 general election and, later representing Cork City South-East, retained his seat until retiring at the 1977 general election. Commonly known Gus Healy, he served as

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from 1964 to 1965 and from 1975 to 1976. Healy was a keen amateur swimmer and a member of Sunday's Well Swimming Club. He continued to promote the sport during his mayoralty and the city's first suburban swimming pool, opened in Ballinlough in the 1970s, was named the Gus Healy municipal swimming pool.

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