Colm Hilliard

{{short description|Irish Fianna Fáil politician (1936–2002)}}

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| office = Teachta Dála

| term_start = February 1982

| term_end = June 1997

| constituency = Meath

| birth_date = {{birth date|1936|5|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = County Meath, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and age|2002|1|14|1936|5|28|df=y}}

| death_place = County Meath, Ireland

| nationality = Irish

| party = Fianna Fáil

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| father = Michael Hilliard

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Colm M. Hilliard (28 May 1936 – 14 January 2002) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who sat for fifteen years as Teachta Dála (TD) for Meath.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Colm-M-Hilliard.D.1982-03-09/|title=Colm Hilliard|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=27 February 2013|archive-date=7 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107010420/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Colm-M-Hilliard.D.1982-03-09|url-status=live}}

He was elected to Dáil Éireann at the February 1982 general election,{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=3478|title=Colm Hilliard|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=27 February 2013|archive-date=25 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925025000/http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=3478|url-status=live}} replacing retiring Labour Party TD James Tully, and giving Fianna Fáil three out of five Meath seats in the 23rd Dáil. He was re-elected at the next four general elections, until his retirement from the Dáil at the 1997 general election, when Johnny Brady retained the seat for Fianna Fáil. Hilliard was nominated to contested the 1997 elections to the 21st Seanad Éireann on the Agricultural Panel, but as he was recovering from surgery did not contest. Despite this he received two first-preference votes in the election.

He served as Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Services Committee from 1987 to 1992.

His father Michael Hilliard, had been a TD for Meath for thirty years, and was a Cabinet minister in the 1960s. He worked as a livestock marketing manager, auctioneer and accountant. He played on the Meath senior Gaelic football and hurling teams.