Eoin Ryan Jnr

Eoin Ryan (born 24 February 1953) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician.

His father, Eoin Ryan Snr, was a senator in Seanad Éireann for a number of years.

His great-aunts, language teacher Josephine Ryan and chemist Phyllis Ryan served in the GPO during the 1916 Easter Rising, and married respectively general and Fine Gael politician Richard Mulcahy and president of Ireland and Fianna Fail politician Seán T. O'Kelly (who was the widower of his great-aunt Mary Kate Ryan); and his great-aunt Agnes McCullough, also an activist and member of Cumann na mBan, married Denis McCullough, Cumann na nGaedheal TD and musical entrepreneur.

[2] In February 2000 Ryan was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Tourism, Sport and Recreation.

In 2004 he was elected to the European Parliament for the Dublin constituency, sitting in the Union for Europe of the Nations group.