Colm M. Hilliard (28 May 1936 – 14 January 2002) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who sat for fifteen years as Teachta Dála (TD) for Meath.
[1] He was elected to Dáil Éireann at the February 1982 general election,[2] replacing retiring Labour Party TD James Tully, and giving Fianna Fáil three out of five Meath seats in the 23rd Dáil.
He served as Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Services Committee from 1987 to 1992.
His father Michael Hilliard, had been a TD for Meath for thirty years, and was a Cabinet minister in the 1960s.
[1] He played on the Meath senior Gaelic football and hurling teams.