Seán Sherwin

Seán Sherwin (12 December 1946 – 30 April 2025) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician.

Sherwin was an unsuccessful candidate for the Dublin South-West constituency at the 1969 general election. However, Dublin South-West's long-serving Labour Party TD Seán Dunne, who had been re-elected at the general election, died only seven days after polling. Sherwin was selected as the Fianna Fáil candidate at the by-election on 4 March 1970, and won, taking his seat in the 19th Dáil, aged 23.

He resigned from Fianna Fáil in 1971 in the wake of the Arms Crisis, and joined Kevin Boland's new party Aontacht Éireann. The new party failed to take off at the 1973 general election, and Sherwin lost his seat to Fine Gael's Declan Costello.

Sherwin later rejoined Fianna Fáil, and at the November 1982 general election he was one of four Fianna Fáil candidates in Dublin West. He won only 2.1% of the first-preference votes and was not elected.

Sherwin died at his home in Roosky, County Roscommon, on 30 April 2025, at the age of 78.