Billy Fox (3 January 1939 – 12 March 1974) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as a Senator for the Cultural and Educational Panel from 1973 to 1974 and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Monaghan constituency from 1969 to 1973.

[6] Fox came to prominence when he campaigned against the British Army's cratering of border roads and its use of CS gas and rubber bullets.

On one occasion, he brought CS gas canisters and rubber bullets into the Dáil chamber and berated the Fianna Fáil Government's policy on Northern Ireland.

[7] On the night of Monday 11 March 1974, about a dozen IRA men arrived at the home of Fox's girlfriend, Marjorie Coulson.

[9] The IRA issued a statement saying that it was not involved, adding that "Mr Fox was known personally to a number of the leadership of the republican movement".

[10] In its statement on Fox's killing, the IRA said "We have repeatedly drawn attention to the murderous acts of a group of former B Specials from County Fermanagh … led by serving officers of the British Army".

[8] The author Tim Pat Coogan, however, suggests that members of the Official IRA were responsible for killing Senator Fox.

[8] Fox was the first member of the Oireachtas to be killed since Minister for Justice Kevin O'Higgins by the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army in 1927.