The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Irish Parliamentary MP, Augustine Roche.
It was won by the Irish Parliamentary candidate Patrick Whitty.
Whitty was imposed on the constituency of North Louth by the Party leadership in what was widely ridiculed as an act of nepotism.
Moran's paper the Leader referred to him as "Whitty the Kid" and published a cartoon in which his victory procession included a pram labelled "The Next Candidate".
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