Barry Cogan (politician)

{{Short description|Irish politician (born 1936)}}

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| office = Senator

| term_start = 8 October 1981

| term_end = 13 May 1982

| constituency = Industrial and Commercial Panel

| office1 = Teachta Dála

| term_start1 = June 1977

| term_end1 = June 1981

| constituency1 = Cork Mid

| nationality = Irish

| party = Fianna Fáil

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1936|9|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = County Cork, Ireland

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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.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Barry-Cogan.D.1977-07-05/|title=Barry Cogan|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=1 January 2008}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?id=82|title=Barry Cogan|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=1 January 2008}} When that constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the 1981 general election, Cogan stood unsuccessfully in the new Cork South-Central constituency.{{cite web|url=http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1981&cons=61|title=General Election: 11 June 1981 – Cork South-Central|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=1 January 2008}} 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, and also in the subsequent Seanad election. 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.

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.{{fact|date=July 2021}}