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Barry Cogan (politician)

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Barry Cogan
Senator
In office
8 October 1981 – 13 May 1982
ConstituencyIndustrial and Commercial Panel
Teachta Dála
In office
June 1977 – June 1981
ConstituencyCork Mid
Personal details
Born (1936-09-27) 27 September 1936 (age 88)
County Cork, Ireland
Political partyFianna Fáil

Barry Cogan (born 27 September 1936) is a retired Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for 4 years and a Senator for less than one year.[1]

He was elected to Dáil Éireann on his first attempt, at the 1977 general election, when he took the fifth of five seats in the Cork Mid constituency.[2] When that constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the 1981 general election, Cogan stood unsuccessfully in the new Cork South-Central constituency.[3] After his defeat, he was elected to the 15th Seanad Éireann on the Industrial and Commercial Panel.

At the general election in February 1982, he was defeated again in Cork South-Central,[2] and also in the subsequent Seanad election.[1] He stood again the next four general elections, but was never returned to the Oireachtas. At the 1999 local elections he was elected to Cork County Council a councillor for Carrigaline, and served one term, losing that seat at the 2004 local elections.[2]

In 1985, Cogan was one of the key founders in Carrigaline of what became South Coast Community Television, a community group established to provide British TV channels to Carrigaline and subsequently other areas of County Cork.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Barry Cogan". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 1 January 2008.
  2. ^ a b c "Barry Cogan". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 1 January 2008.
  3. ^ "General Election: 11 June 1981 – Cork South-Central". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 1 January 2008.