Seán Hayes (Cork politician)

Seán Hayes (29 March 1884 – 24 January 1928)[1] was a Sinn Féin member of Dáil Éireann in Ireland.

[2] He was a newspaper editor (the Cork County Southern Star of Skibbereen) and political propagandist.

He was a participant in the 1916 Easter Rising at the GPO, Dublin, for which he was arrested and spent time interned in Wormwood Scrubs.

[4] He did not take the seat he had won in the British House of Commons, but like other members of his party he joined the revolutionary First Dáil of 1919 to 1921.

Hayes was arrested by the British forces during a raid on party offices in Dublin in November 1919.