Richard Barry (4 September 1919 – 28 April 2013) was an Irish

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politician. A

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lican before entering politics, he first stood for election in the Cork East constituency at the 1951 general election, but was unsuccessful. He was elected to

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at a by-election in 1953 following the death of the Labour Party

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(TD) Seán Keane. He was re-elected at each subsequent election until he retired at the 1981 general election. From 1961 he was elected for the Cork North-East constituency. In 1973, he was appointed a Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health on the nomination of

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and served till 1977. His daughter

Myra Barry Myra Barry (born 30 June 1957) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1979 to 1987. A national school teacher by profession, she trained at St Patrick's College, Dublin. She was first elected to Dáil É ...

was elected in a by-election in 1979 for the same constituency of Cork North-East. This is the only time a parent and child have been represented in the same constituency in the same Dáil.

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