Under Lemass, party elders such as James Ryan, Seán MacEntee and Paddy Smith retired and a new generation of politicians were introduced to government such as Brian Lenihan, Donogh O ' Malley, Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney.

Following a heated parliamentary party meeting, Seán Power, one of Reynolds's supporters put down a motion of no-confidence in Haughey.

Worse was to follow when Seán Doherty, the man who as Minister for Justice had taken the blame for the phone-tapping scandal of the early 1980s, went on RTÉ television, and after ten years of insisting that Haughey knew nothing of the tapping, claimed that Haughey had known and authorised it.

His son, Seán Haughey, was elected at that election in his father's old constituency.

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.

In November 1991 a relatively unknown rural TD, Seán Power, put down a motion of no confidence in Haughey.

Worse was to follow when Seán Doherty, the man who as Minister for Justice had taken the blame for the phone-tapping scandal of the early 1980s, went on RTÉ television and said that Haughey had known and authorised the phone-tapping.

In 2010, Minister of State, Seán Haughey, proposed that the building be handed over to the state in return for the Irish state's bailout of the bank during the Irish banking crisis.

When it was revealed by Seán Doherty that Haughey had authorised the tapping of two journalists ' telephones in 1982, O ' Malley decided that the Progressive Democrats could no longer remain in his government.

She resigned as a Minister of State on 8 December 2006 and was replaced by a member of another Irish political dynasty, Seán Haughey.

In 1987 she served as election agent and party treasurer in Dublin North for Seán Haughey.

* 8 November-Seán Haughey, Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála for Dublin North – East, son of Charles Haughey and Maureen Haughey, grandson of Seán Lemass.

In 1991 Fitzgerald was a key member of the so-called " gang of four " which proposed a motion of no confidence in the Taoiseach, and the leader of his party, Charles Haughey ( the other members of the group were Noel Dempsey, Seán Power and M. J. Nolan ).

His father was Charles Haughey, while his grandfather was Seán Lemass.

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In 1976 she contested the by-election in Dublin South – West, following the death of her 47-year-old husband, Noel Lemass, Jnr, a son of former Taoiseach Seán Lemass and a brother-in-law to another former Taoiseach Charles Haughey.

One of her sons, Seán Haughey, has served as Lord Mayor of Dublin and is a former TD and Minister of State.

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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.

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.

Seán MacEntee was born in College Square, Belfast in 1889.

The following year, their son, Seán MacBride, was born.

Seán Mac Eoin was born John Joseph McKeon on 30 September 1893 at Bunlahy, Granard, County Longford, the eldest son of Andrew McKeon and Catherine Treacy.

These include Máirtín Ó Direáin ( 1910 – 1988 ), Seán Ó Ríordáin ( 1916 – 1977 ), Máire Mhac an tSaoi ( born 1922 ), Michael Hartnett ( born 1941 ), Gabriel Rosenstock ( born 1949 ), and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill ( born 1952 ).

Riley was born in Clifden, County Galway, Ireland about 1805 ; his name in the original Irish Gaelic is Seán O ' Raghailligh.

Irish author Seán O ' Casey and Irish dramatist and educator Thomas Sheridan were born on this street.

Seán O ' Casey was born at number 85, since demolished and replaced by a branch of the Bank of Ireland ( now disused ), his family having previously occupied numbers 6 and 23½ before moving there.

Seán Flanagan was born in Aughnamore, Ballyhaunis, County Mayo in 1922.

Seán Mac Diarmada ( February 28, 1883 – May 12, 1916 ) ( born John MacDermott, usually used the name Sean MacDermott ) was one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland.

Seán Heuston, ( February 21, 1891-May 8, 1916 ), born Jack Heuston, and sometimes referred to as J. J. Heuston, was an Irish rebel and member of Fianna Éireann who took part in the Easter Rising of 1916.

* Seán Ó Faoláin ( 1900 – 1991 ), Irish short story writer, born as John Francis Whelan

He was born in Dublin in 1930, a son of the noted painter Seán Keating.

* 16 February – Seán Ó Cionnaith, Workers ' Party of Ireland politician ( born 1938 ).

* Seán Condon, Cork hurler ( born 1923 ).

* Seán ' ac Dhonncha, traditional singer ( born 1919 ).

* 10 January – Seán MacEntee, Fianna Fáil TD and Tánaiste from 1959 to 1965 ( born 1889 ).

* Seán Keating, painter ( born 1889 ).

* Seán Óg Murphy, Cork hurler, Gaelic Athletic Association administrator ( born 1897 ).

* 18 September – Seán O ' Casey, dramatist and memoirist ( born 1880 ).

* 1 January-Fergal O ' Hanlon, Irish Republican Army member killed with Seán South attacking the Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Brookeborough ( born 1936 ).

** Seán O ' Mahony, Sinn Féin MP ( born 1864 ).

Jack Lukeman ( born Seán Loughman February 11, 1973 ), usually simply known as Jack L, is an Irish songwriter, musician, record producer, vocal artist and broadcaster known to perform in English, Irish, French, German, Czechoslovakian and Maori.