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Pádraig Faulkner - Wikipedia

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Pádraig Faulkner
Faulkner in 1980

Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann
In office 16 October 1980 – 30 June 1981
Deputy	Seán Browne
Preceded by	Joseph Brennan
Succeeded by	John O'Connell
Minister for Defence
In office 12 December 1979 – 15 October 1980
Taoiseach	Jack Lynch Charles Haughey
Preceded by	Bobby Molloy
Succeeded by	Sylvester Barrett
Minister for Posts and Telegraphs
In office 5 July 1977 – 11 December 1979
Taoiseach	Jack Lynch
Preceded by	Conor Cruise O'Brien
Succeeded by	Albert Reynolds
Minister for Tourism and Transport
In office 5 July 1977 – 11 December 1979
Taoiseach	Jack Lynch
Preceded by	Tom Fitzpatrick
Succeeded by	George Colley
Minister for Education
In office 2 July 1969 – 14 March 1973
Taoiseach	Jack Lynch
Preceded by	Brian Lenihan
Succeeded by	Richard Burke
Minister for the Gaeltacht
In office 27 March 1968 – 2 July 1969
Taoiseach	Jack Lynch
Preceded by	Mícheál Ó Móráin
Succeeded by	George Colley
Minister for Lands
In office 27 March 1968 – 2 July 1969
Taoiseach	Jack Lynch
Preceded by	Mícheál Ó Móráin
Succeeded by	Seán Flanagan
Parliamentary Secretary
1965–1968	Gaeltacht
Teachta Dála
In office March 1957 – February 1987
Constituency	Louth

Personal details
Born	(1918-03-12)12 March 1918 Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland
Died	1 June 2012(2012-06-01) (aged 94) Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland
Political party	Fianna Fáil
Spouse	Kitty Landy (m. 1948)
Children	6
Alma mater	St Patrick's College, Dublin

Pádraig Faulkner (12 March 1918 – 1 June 2012)^[1] was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1980 to 1981, Minister for Defence 1979 to 1980, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs and Minister for Tourism and Transport from 1977 to 1979, Minister for Education from 1969 to 1973, Minister for the Gaeltacht and Minister for Lands from 1968 to 1969 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Gaeltacht from 1965 to 1968. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency from 1957 to 1987.^[2]

Faulkner was born in Dundalk, County Louth, in 1918. He was educated at Dundalk CBS and St Patrick's College of Education in Drumcondra, Dublin, where he qualified as a national school teacher. Faulkner grew up in Dunleer in south Louth, where his father was a strong supporter of Fine Gael, while his mother supported the more Republican and working class Fianna Fáil. He favoured his mother's political outlook, and joined Fianna Fáil. Faulkner unsuccessfully contested the Louth by-election in 1954 but at the 1957 general election, he was elected to Dáil Éireann.^[3]

In 1965, Faulkner was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Gaeltacht by the Taoiseach, Seán Lemass. He was appointed to the Cabinet by the new Taoiseach Jack Lynch in 1968, and served in every Fianna Fáil-led government until 1980. During the Arms Crisis he was a Lynch loyalist. He was one of a number of senior TDs who organised the assembly of TDs and Senators in Dublin Airport to welcome Lynch home from the United States, after the defendants had been found not guilty at the Arms Trial. Nine years later in 1979 one of those defendants, Charles Haughey, was elected Taoiseach. Faulkner was retained in the Cabinet until 1980 when he was elected Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann. He was subsequently appointed to the Council of State by President Patrick Hillery in 1984.^[4]

Following the election of a new Ceann Comhairle immediately after the 1981 general election, he retired to the backbenches before retiring from politics at the 1987 general election. In a Dáil career that spanned thirty years, his most notable achievements include the introduction of the legislation to establish two commercial semi-State companies, An Post and Telecom Éireann.^[4]

He died at the age of 94, on 1 June 2012.^[5]

References

^ Murphy, Hubert (6 June 2012). "Louth mourns death of Padraig Faulkner". Drogheda Independent. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
^ "Pádraig Faulkner". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
^ "Pádraig Faulkner". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 21 February 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
^ ^a ^b Maume, Patrick (June 2018). "Faulkner, Pádraig". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Archived from the original on 29 November 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
^ "Former Ceann Comhairle Pádraig Faulkner dies aged 94". RTÉ News. 1 June 2012. Archived from the original on 1 June 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2012.

Political offices
New office	Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Gaeltacht 1965–1968	Office abolished
Preceded by Mícheál Ó Móráin	Minister for Lands 1968–1969	Succeeded by Seán Flanagan
Preceded by Mícheál Ó Móráin	Minister for the Gaeltacht 1968–1969	Succeeded by George Colley
Preceded by Brian Lenihan	Minister for Education 1969–1973	Succeeded by Richard Burke
Preceded by Conor Cruise O'Brien	Minister for Posts and Telegraphs 1977–1979	Succeeded by Albert Reynolds
Preceded by Tom Fitzpatrick	Minister for Tourism and Transport 1977–1979	Succeeded by George Colley
Preceded by Bobby Molloy	Minister for Defence 1979–1980	Succeeded by Sylvester Barrett
Preceded by Joseph Brennan	Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann 1980–1981	Succeeded by John O'Connell

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v t e Presiding officers of Dáil Éireann
Cathal Brugha George Noble Plunkett Seán T. O'Kelly Eoin MacNeill Michael Hayes Frank Fahy Patrick Hogan Cormac Breslin Seán Treacy Joseph Brennan Pádraig Faulkner John O'Connell Thomas Fitzpatrick Séamus Pattison Rory O'Hanlon John O'Donoghue Séamus Kirk Seán Barrett Seán Ó Fearghaíl

v t e Lynch cabinet (1966–1969)
Taoiseach: Jack Lynch
Frank Aiken Neil Blaney Kevin Boland Joseph Brennan Erskine H. Childers George Colley Pádraig Faulkner Seán Flanagan Charles Haughey Patrick Hillery Michael Hilliard Brian Lenihan Donogh O'Malley Mícheál Ó Móráin

v t e Lynch cabinet (1969–1973)
Taoiseach: Jack Lynch
Neil Blaney Kevin Boland Joseph Brennan Erskine H. Childers George Colley Gerry Collins Jerry Cronin Pádraig Faulkner Seán Flanagan Jim Gibbons Charles Haughey Patrick Hillery Patrick Lalor Brian Lenihan Bobby Molloy Michael O'Kennedy Desmond O'Malley Mícheál Ó Móráin

v t e Lynch cabinet (1977–1979)
Taoiseach: Jack Lynch
Sylvester Barrett George Colley Gerry Collins Pádraig Faulkner Gene Fitzgerald Denis Gallagher Jim Gibbons Charles Haughey Brian Lenihan Bobby Molloy Martin O'Donoghue Michael O'Kennedy Desmond O'Malley John Wilson

v t e Haughey cabinet (1979–1981)
Taoiseach: Charles Haughey
Sylvester Barrett Ray Burke George Colley Gerry Collins Pádraig Faulkner Gene Fitzgerald Máire Geoghegan-Quinn Brian Lenihan Ray MacSharry Tom Nolan Michael O'Kennedy Desmond O'Malley Paddy Power Albert Reynolds John Wilson Michael Woods

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Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for the Louth constituency

Dáil	Election				Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
4th	1923	Frank Aiken (Rep)	Peter Hughes (CnaG)	James Murphy (CnaG)	3 seats until 1977
5th	1927 (Jun)	Frank Aiken (FF)	James Coburn (NL)
6th	1927 (Sep)		James Coburn (NL)
7th	1932		James Coburn (Ind)
8th	1933		James Coburn (Ind)
9th	1937		James Coburn (FG)	Laurence Walsh (FF)
10th	1938			Laurence Walsh (FF)
11th	1943			Roddy Connolly (Lab)
12th	1944			Laurence Walsh (FF)
13th	1948			Roddy Connolly (Lab)
14th	1951			Laurence Walsh (FF)
14th	1954 by-election		George Coburn (FG)	Laurence Walsh (FF)
15th	1954			Paddy Donegan (FG)
16th	1957			Pádraig Faulkner^[a] (FF)
17th	1961		Paddy Donegan (FG)
18th	1965
19th	1969
20th	1973	Joseph Farrell (FF)
21st	1977	Joseph Farrell (FF)				Eddie Filgate (FF)	4 seats 1977–2011
22nd	1981	Paddy Agnew (AHB)	Bernard Markey (FG)
23rd	1982 (Feb)	Thomas Bellew (FF)	Bernard Markey (FG)
24th	1982 (Nov)	Michael Bell (Lab)	Brendan McGahon (FG)			Séamus Kirk^[b] (FF)
25th	1987			Dermot Ahern (FF)
26th	1989
27th	1992
28th	1997
29th	2002	Arthur Morgan (SF)	Fergus O'Dowd (FG)
30th	2007	Arthur Morgan (SF)
31st	2011	Gerry Adams (SF)		Ged Nash (Lab)				Peter Fitzpatrick (FG)
32nd	2016	Gerry Adams (SF)		Declan Breathnach (FF)		Imelda Munster (SF)		Peter Fitzpatrick (FG)
33rd	2020	Ruairí Ó Murchú (SF)		Ged Nash (Lab)		Imelda Munster (SF)		Peter Fitzpatrick (Ind)
34th	2024	Ruairí Ó Murchú (SF)	Paula Butterly (FG)	Ged Nash (Lab)		Joanna Byrne (SF)		Erin McGreehan (FF)

^ Faulker served as Ceann Comhairle in the 21st Dáil from 1977 to 1981, and was returned automatically at the 1981 election.
^ Kirk served as Ceann Comhairle in the 30th Dáil from 2009 to 2011, and was returned automatically at the 2011 election.

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