Career
A civil engineer, he was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (Territorial Decoration) for the Galway West constituency at the 1944 general election. He was re-elected at the 1948 general election but lost his seat at the 1951 general election. He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1954 and 1957 general elections.
