Hugh Byrne (5 July 1939 – 22 April 2023) was an Irish Fine Gael politician from Dublin.
[1] Byrne was elected to Dáil Éireann on his first attempt, at the 1969 general election, when he won a seat in the 19th Dáil as a TD for the Dublin North-West constituency.
[2] After Garret FitzGerald's Fine Gael–Labour Party coalition government fell in January 1982, Byrne lost his seat at the resulting February 1982 general election, to Proinsias De Rossa of Sinn Féin the Workers Party.
After failing to regain his seat at the November 1982 general election, he did not stand again.
[2] After politics, he returned to his medical career as a GP.