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About Michael Joe Cosgrave
- Michael Joe Cosgrave (born 9 March 1938) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician.
- He was for some years a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-East constituency, and also served as a local councillor.He was educated at St.
- Joseph's Secondary C.B.S.
- in Fairview, at the School of Management Studies in Rathmines, and at University College Dublin. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael TD for the Dublin Clontarf constituency at the 1977 general election.
- When that constituency was abolished, Cosgrave secured election at Dublin North-East in 1981.
- There he retained his seat until losing it at the 1992 general election, his defeat owing to the national swing to the Labour Party.
- He regained his seat at the 1997 general election but lost it again in 2002.In the 1999 local elections Cosgrave was elected as a member of Fingal County Council for the Dublin suburb of Howth.
- He retained his seat in 2004, and retired in 2009.
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