Career
Gibbons was one of 14 Progressive Democrat TDs elected to the 25th Dáil at the 1987 general election, the first election after the party was founded. He was elected for Carlow–Kilkenny, the constituency previously represented by his father Jim Gibbons, Snr, a long-serving Fianna Fáil Territorial Decoration and Cabinet minister. He was defeated at the 1989 general election, and did not stand for election again.
