When Lynch returned he was questioned on this by a Clare backbencher Dr Bill Loughnane along with Tom McEllistrim at a parliamentary party meeting.

When Lynch returned he was confronted openly by Síle de Valera, Dr Bill Loughnane, a noted hardline Republican backbencher, along with Tom McEllistrim, a member of Haughey's gang of five, at a parliamentary party meeting.

McEllistrim the younger succeeded his father by being elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1969 general election.

McEllistrim believed that Lynch was about to retire and was particularly uncomfortable at the thought of George Colley succeeding Lynch.

Haughey won the leadership contest by a decisive margin and McEllistrim was rewarded by being appointed Minister of State at the Department of Finance with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works.

His son, Tom McEllistrim, was elected in Kerry North at the 2002 general election.

In the 1977 general election McEllistrim was elected along with his running mate Kit Ahern.

This group, known as the " gang of five ," consisted of Jackie Fahey, Tom McEllistrim, Seán Doherty, Mark Killilea, Jnr and Albert Reynolds.

This group, known as the " gang of five ," consisted of Jackie Fahey, Tom McEllistrim, Seán Doherty, Mark Killilea and Albert Reynolds.

He became a member of the so-called " gang of five " with Jackie Fahey, Mark Killilea, Jnr, Tom McEllistrim and Seán Doherty which aligned itself to Charles Haughey and supported him in the subsequent leadership contest.

The other members were Albert Reynolds, Mark Killilea, Jnr, Tom McEllistrim and Jackie Fahey.

* 24 October-Tom McEllistrim, Fianna Fáil TD for Kerry North.

Thomas ( Tom ) McEllistrim ( 15 January 1932 – 25 February 2000 ) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician.

Born in Boherbee, County Kerry in 1932, McEllistrim was the son of the sitting Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála and War of Independence veteran, Tom McEllistrim.

McEllistrim, who was given much credit for this feat, was disappointed not to receive a promotion to a Junior Ministry.

McEllistrim became disillusioned with the Taoiseach and party leader Jack Lynch from then and began to believe that Charles Haughey was the right candidate for the party leadership.

McEllistrim was particularly vocal with regard to party policy towards Northern Ireland and, as he saw it, Lynch's apparent lack of sympathy towards the northern nationalist community.

McEllistrim was a member of the so-called " gang of five " along with Seán Doherty, Mark Killilea, Jnr, Jackie Fahey and Albert Reynolds who started a lobbying campaign in favour of Haughey on the back benches of the party.

McEllistrim died aged 68 on 25 February 2000.

Fahey was instrumental in forming the so-called " gang of five " with Albert Reynolds, Mark Killilea, Tom McEllistrim and Seán Doherty.

Along with Jackie Fahey, Tom McEllistrim, Seán Doherty and Albert Reynolds, Killilea was one of the so-called " gang of five " that lobbied the parliamentary party for support for Charles Haughey in the event of the retirement of Jack Lynch.

It was also the first time that two Fianna Fáil TDs had been elected in the Kerry North constituency, the other deputy being Tom McEllistrim.

A group known as the " gang of five ", which consisted of Tom McEllistrim, Mark Killilea, Jnr, Seán Doherty, Jackie Fahey and Albert Reynolds, had tried to whip up support for Haughey within the party for the previous few months, as they had anticipated that a change of leadership was imminent.

Steele lost his seat in Parliament, and his personal quarrel with Swift, by now a public issue, thus reached its climax.

Meanwhile it was a disappointing night for the SNP, they failed to gain any seats and lost a seat to the Conservatives by just 79 votes.

Plaid Cymru gained and lost a seat to Labour respectively.

Samuel had lost his seat in the 1935 election and the leadership of the party fell to Sir Archibald Sinclair.

Although Emlyn Hooson held on to the seat of Montgomeryshire, upon Clement Davies death in 1962, the party lost its other Welsh five Welsh seats between 1950 and 1966.

At the time of the SDP's creation, Owen and Rodgers were sitting Labour Members of Parliament ( MPs ); Jenkins had left Parliament in 1977 to serve as President of the European Commission, while Williams had lost her seat in the 1979 general election.

But the CFSD failed to gain nationwide support, and Taverne lost the seat at the October 1974 General Election.

The Party suffered a major defeat in the parliamentary elections of September 2011 in which the party lost more than half of its seat and also lost governmental power.

He lost his seat in the 1970 election, but returned as an MP for Glasgow Garscadden at a by-election in 1978.

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Carla, who lost her baby son in the crash, struggles with survivor's guilt, punishing herself for not holding onto him tightly enough when his seat belt on the plane malfunctioned.

Mary White won a seat for the first time in Carlow-Kilkenny however, Dan Boyle lost his seat in Cork South – Central leaving the party with the same number of TDs as before.

He lost his seat in May 1971.

Stephen Milligan was found dead having apparently auto-asphyxiated whilst performing a solitary sex act ( his Eastleigh seat was lost in what was to be an ongoing stream of hefty by-election defeats ).

Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Foreign Secretary prior to the election, had lost his seat ), and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997.

The Left and the Communist Party each lost its single seat in part due to their separate campaigns.

Foot took a back seat in Labour politics after 1983 and retired from the House of Commons at the 1992 general election, when Labour lost to the Tories ( now led by John Major ) for the fourth election in succession, but remained politically active.

In 2004 Aníbal Acevedo Vilá ( PDP ) was declared the winner by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico as governor, by about 3, 000 votes, but his party lost control of the Senate, which elected NPP Senator Kenneth McClintock as its president, and the House of Representatives, which chose the NPP's José Aponte as Speaker, and Puerto Rico's seat in Congress, due to the election of Luis Fortuño.

But due to its failure to appeal to the masses and the governor's encouragement for " communal representation " by creating a " Colombo seat " that dangled between Sinhalese and Tamils, the Congress lost its momentum towards the mid 1920s.

The SNP first won a parliamentary seat at the Motherwell by-election in 1945, but Dr Robert McIntyre MP lost the seat at the general election three months later.

He lost the Westminster seat at the 1992 general election and expressed his disappointment by calling the Scottish people ' Ninety minute patriots '.

Placed second on the Kadima list, Mofaz retained his seat in the 2009 elections, but lost his cabinet position after Likud formed the government.