Brendan Crinion

{{Short description|Irish politician (1923–1989)}}

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| office = Teachta Dála

| term_start = February 1973

| term_end = February 1982

| constituency = Meath

| term_start1 = October 1961

| term_end1 = June 1969

| constituency1 = Kildare

| office2 = Senator

| term_start2 = 5 November 1969

| term_end2 = 28 February 1973

| constituency2 = Nominated by the Taoiseach

| birth_date = {{birth date|1923|11|11|df=y}}

| birth_place = County Kildare, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1989|7|2|1923|11|11|df=y}}

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| nationality = Irish

| party = Fianna Fáil

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Brendan Crinion (11 November 1923 – 2 July 1989) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served for more than twenty years as a Teachta Dála (TD) and as a Senator.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Brendan-Crinion.D.1961-10-11/|title=Brendan Crinion|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=15 September 2012|archive-date=2018-11-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107225138/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Brendan-Crinion.D.1961-10-11|url-status=live}}

A farmer before entering politics, Crinion was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD for the Kildare constituency at the 1961 general election.{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2691|title=Brendan Crinion|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=15 September 2012|archive-date=25 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925025107/http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2691|url-status=live}} He was returned for Kildare at the 1965 general election, but after boundary changesThe 1961 constituency boundaries had incorporated the areas of County Meath around Dunshaughlin and Trim in the Kildare constituency; but the 1969 boundary changes placed those districts in the Meath constituency, along with the Kildare districts of Edenderry and Celbridge. for the 1969 general election he stood in the neighbouring Meath constituency. He was defeated there, but was then nominated by the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, to the 12th Seanad.

At the next general election in 1973, he stood again in Meath, unseating the long-serving Fianna Fáil TD Michael Hilliard. Crinion was re-elected in Meath at the 1977 general election and again in 1981 general election, before retiring from politics at the February 1982 general election.