Sean Conway (Irish politician)

{{Short description|Irish pharmacist and politician (1931–1995)}}

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| office = Senator

| term_start = 13 May 1982

| term_end = 23 February 1983

| constituency = Administrative Panel

| birth_date = {{birth year|1931}}

| birth_place = County Meath, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1995|12|27|1931|df=y}}

| death_place = County Meath, Ireland

| party = Fianna Fáil

| spouse = {{ubl|Carmel Conway|Rosemary Blood}}

| children = 6

| alma_mater =

| education = Rockwell College

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Sean Conway (1931 – 27 December 1995) was a Fianna Fáil politician from County Meath in Ireland.{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/sean-conway-mpsi-1.30964|title=Sean Conway MPSI|newspaper=The Irish Times |date=20 February 1996|access-date=20 July 2024}} He was a senator from 1982 to 1983.{{cite web |url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Cathy-Honan.S.1982-05-13/|title=Sean Conway|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=31 January 2008}} He was a member of Meath County Council from 1963 to 1991.

Conway was a pharmacist, who stood unsuccessfully as a Fianna Fáil candidate for Dáil Éireann in the Meath constituency at three successive general elections: 1981, February 1982 and November 1982.{{cite web |url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=3389 |title=Sean Conway |work=ElectionsIreland.org |access-date=31 January 2008}} After his February 1982 defeat, he was elected to the 16th Seanad on the Administrative Panel, but was defeated in the 1983 election to the 17th Seanad.

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