Thomas Dunne (10 March 1926 – 3 August 1990) was an Irish

Fine Gael Fine Gael ( ; ; ) is a centre-right, liberal-conservative, Christian democratic political party in Ireland. Fine Gael is currently the third-largest party in the Republic of Ireland in terms of members of Dáil Éireann. The party had a member ...

politician and

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(TD) for Tipperary North from 1961 to 1977. He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1957 general election, but at the 1961 general election he defeated the

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TD Mary Ryan, and took his seat in the

17th Dáil The 17th Dáil was elected at the 1961 general election on 4 October 1961 and met on 11 October 1961. The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas (legislature) of Ireland, are known as TDs. It sat with the 10 ...

. He was re-elected at the next three general elections, before losing his seat in the Fianna Fáil landslide at the 1977 general election to Michael Smith. In 1973, Dunne was appointed a member of the second delegation from the

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to the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dunne, Thomas 1926 births 1990 deaths Fine Gael TDs Members of the 17th Dáil Members of the 18th Dáil Members of the 19th Dáil Members of the 20th Dáil Fine Gael MEPs MEPs for the Republic of Ireland 1973–1977 Politicians from County Tipperary