Career
Foreign the New York assemblyman, see Patrick J. Kerrigan. A trade union official, Kerrigan was an unsuccessful candidate in the Cork City North–West constituency at the 1969 general election. Kerrigan was then nominated by the Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave, to the 13th Seanad, where he served until 1977.
At the 1977 general election, Kerrigan was elected in the new five-seat Cork City constituency, where Fianna Fáil leader Jack Lynch topped the poll with over 39% of the vote, leading his party to a landslide 20-seat majority in the 144-seat Dáil Éireann.
Kerrigan took his seat in the 21st Dáil, but died in office two years later on 4 July 1979, aged 51. Kerrigan was also Lord Mayor of Cork for the 1973 to 1974.
