Tom Leonard (Irish politician)

The business had been started two generations earlier by his grandmother, continued by his father and ultimately passed to Leonard and his two brothers.

[2] Leonard when he won the November 1983 by-election for Dublin Central following the death of George Colley.

During this tenure, he was appointed by the party leader and former Taoiseach Charles Haughey to the New Ireland Forum.

Unusually for a sitting TD, he was not selected by Fianna Fáil to contest the 1987 general election, losing out to John Stafford and Dermot Fitzpatrick.

Leonard graciously accepted the party decision which ended his Dáil career and went back to being a city councillor.

Tom Leonard (on the podium, left) Christmas 1949, auctioning holly wreaths in the Dublin Fruit and Vegetable Markets.