Kieran Crotty was a former Irish

Republic of Ireland

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 Fine Gael

Fine Gael

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 party politician who served for twenty years as Teachta Dála

Teachta Dála

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 (TD) for the constituency of Carlow–Kilkenny

Carlow–Kilkenny (Dáil Éireann constituency)

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Crotty

Crotty

Crotty are anglicisations of the Irish name O’Crotaigh – ‘Descendant of Crotach’.The name dates from medieval times, to the pre-Norman kingdom of Thomond where the Dál gCais clan, centred on the regional rulers - the O'Brien family - were dominant...

 was first elected to the 19th Dáil in the 1969 general election

Irish general election, 1969

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. His father Patrick Crotty

Patrick Crotty

Patrick J. Crotty was an Irish Fine Gael party politician who served for twenty-one years as TD for the constituency of Carlow–Kilkenny....

 was a TD for Carlow–Kilkenny from 1948 to 1969.

He was re-elected six times, in the 1973

Irish general election, 1973

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, 1977

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, 1981

Irish general election, 1981

The Irish general election of 1981 was held on 11 June 1981, three weeks after the dissolution of the Dáil on 21 May. The newly elected 166 members of the 22nd Dáil assembled at Leinster House on 30 June when a new Taoiseach and government were appointed....

, February 1982, November 1982 and 1987

Irish general election, 1987

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 general elections. He did not contest the 1989 general election

Irish general election, 1989

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He was elected as Mayor of Kilkenny

Kilkenny

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for six one-year-terms between 1970 and 1995.