Michael Pat Murphy

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Hiberno-English Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Michael Patrick Murphy (12 March 1919 – 28 October 2000) was an Irish Labour Party politician. A publican before entering politics, he was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork West constituency at the 1951 general election.^[1] He was re-elected at each subsequent election until he retired at the 1981 general election.

From 1961 he was elected for the Cork South-West constituency.^[2] He was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries by the government of the Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave, serving from 1973 to 1977.^[3]^[1] In February 1977, on the reorganisation of government departments, he was reassigned to the separate posts of Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Fisheries, serving until May 1977.^[4]

In 1985, his daughter Kate Ann married John O'Donoghue, who was later elected as a Fianna Fáil TD for Kerry South and served as a government minister and Ceann Comhairle.^[5]

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