Robert Keating was an Irish politician from Cashel in County Tipperary.
[1][2] He was elected at the 1847 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for County Waterford,[3] as a Repeal Association candidate.
[4] The Times newspaper of London reported that at the time of his election he was employed by the Board of Works a rate of 7s/6d per day, claiming that this proved "beyond a shadow of a doubt" that he was unqualified to be an MP.
[5] He did not defend the seat at the 1852 general election, but stood instead as an Irish Whig Party candidate in Waterford City.
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