Pól Ó Foighil (1 June 1928 – 21 March 2005) was an Irish politician and activist for Irish-speaking, coastal and island communities.

[1] Ó Foighil's first community development effort was the establishment of group schemes for water supply, leading to the nickname "fear an uisce".

[2] As manager of the co-op on Inis Meáin, he supervised the construction of a desalination plant on the island,[1] and of a controversial wind farm.

The environmentalist and author Tim Robinson opposed the wind turbines, and was accused by Ó Foighil of "giving vent to confrontational heritage attitudes" and of being "hell bent" on the depopulation of Inis Meáin".

[9] He caused controversy in the Seanad by insisting on wearing the traditional Connemara 'báinín' jacket, and by changing his name to Pól 'Báinín' Ó Foighil.

Flynn also cited the case of the son of a returned emigrant who had difficulty buying an apartment in a Gaeltacht area because he didn't speak Irish.

According to Pádraic McCormack TD, Ó Foighil challenged Fitzpatrick to 20 press ups, and told the convention that his hair was his own, his teeth were his own and that other parts of his anatomy were working very well, too.