Richard Conroy

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title: "Richard Conroy" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1933-births", "2024-deaths", "fianna-fáil-senators", "members-of-the-14th-seanad", "members-of-the-19th-seanad", "members-of-dublin-county-council", "members-of-dún-laoghaire–rathdown-council", "people-educated-at-blackrock-college", "fianna-fáil-candidates-in-dáil-elections", "cultural-and-educational-panel-senators", "industrial-and-commercial-panel-senators", "people-from-dublin-(city)", "fianna-fáil-local-councillors"] description: "Irish politician and businessman (1933–2024)" topic_path: "politics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Conroy" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Irish politician and businessman (1933–2024) ::

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Field	Value
office	Senator
term_start	1 November 1989
term_end	17 February 1993
constituency	Industrial and Commercial Panel
term_start1	27 October 1977
term_end1	8 October 1981
constituency1	Cultural and Educational Panel
birth_date
birth_place	Dublin, Ireland
death_date
death_place	Dublin, Ireland
party	Fianna Fáil
education	Blackrock College
alma_mater	Royal College of Surgeons
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Richard Conroy (12 September 1933 – 14 October 2024) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and businessman. He was elected to Seanad Éireann on the Cultural and Educational Panel in 1977 and served until 1981.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Richard-Conroy.S.1977-10-27/|title=Richard Conroy|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=5 April 2010

Conroy was a member of Dublin County Council for the Ballybrack electoral area from 1991 to 1994, and of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council from 1994 to 1999. He stood for election to Dáil Éireann for various Dublin constituencies, at five general elections between 1977 and 1987, but was unsuccessful on all occasions.

He was an emeritus professor of physiology in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and founder and director of Conroy Gold and Natural Resources, a mining and exploration company.

Conroy was a member of the executive committee of the Trilateral Commission.

Conroy died in Dublin on 14 October 2024, at age of 91.

References

References

1. "Richard Conroy". ElectionsIreland.org.
2. "Corporate – Directors". Conroy Diamonds and Gold.
3. "Corporate – History". Conroy Diamonds and Gold.
4. "Trilateral Commission membership". Trilateral Commission.
5. "Richard Conroy".
6. (16 October 2024). "Richard Conroy, founder of Conroy Gold, dies aged 91 after short illness". [[Sunday Business Post]].
7. (16 October 2024). "Death notice of Richard Conroy". [[RIP.ie]].

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