Jack McQuillan

Jack McQuillan, born John McQuillan in Ballyforan, County Roscommon, in 1920, was an Irish politician, trade unionist and army officer who also played Gaelic football for his county. He was a member of the Roscommon team that won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in 1943 and 1944. After a spell as an Irish Army officer he worked as a local government official and was elected to Dáil Éireann for Roscommon at the 1948 general election as a Clann na Poblachta candidate, later sitting as an independent and then leading the National Progressive Democrats alongside Noël Browne before both men joined the Labour Party in 1963. He lost his Dáil seat in 1965 but was elected to Seanad Éireann on the Administrative Panel, and he died in Bray, County Wicklow, in 1998.