Career
He was elected to the 7th Seanad in 1951 by the Industrial and Commercial Panel. He was re-elected at the 1954 Seanad election but lost his seat at the 1957 Seanad election. He had previously stood unsuccessfully for Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil candidate for the Limerick constituency at the 1943 general election.
