Jim Tunney, born James C. Tunney on 25 December 1924 in Finglas, Dublin, and died on 16 January 2002, was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who also played Gaelic football at senior level for the Dublin county team. He was on the winning side for Dublin in the 1948 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship. He worked in the Department of Agriculture, studied part-time at University College Dublin and became headmaster of Blanchardstown VEC in 1962. He was elected a Teachta Dála for Dublin North-West in 1969, sat in the Dáil until 1992, served as a Minister of State in the Department of Education and was Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1984 to 1985.
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was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician
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