Daniel Desmond was an Irish Labour Party politician and Teachta Dala for seventeen years.
10 Facts About Dan Desmond
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Dan Desmond was educated at the local national school and the Municipal College of Commerce, Cork.
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Dan Desmond took his seat in the 13th Dail, and was re-elected at the 1951 general election and again in the 1954 and 1957 general elections, topping the poll again in 1951 and 1954.
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Dan Desmond was the Labour Party's chief spokesman on local government, and had strong views on social issues in parliament, in particular housing, health and education.
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Dan Desmond was principally responsible for the passing of the Local Government Act 1956, providing a pension scheme for road workers.
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Dan Desmond was parliamentary leader of his party during the Second Inter-Party Government and he later became deputy leader.
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Dan Desmond married Eileen Harrington, a civil servant, in 1956, and they had two daughters.
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Dan Desmond died from a cardiac infarction caused by Tuberculosis on 9 December 1964 at St Stephen's Hospital, Cork.
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The by-election for his seat in the 17th Dail was won on 10 March 1965 by his widow Eileen Dan Desmond, who sat in the Oireachtas for 22 years.
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Dan Desmond's daughter, Paula Desmond, was a member of Cork County Council from 1985 to 2014.