Tony Bromell Explained

Office:Senator
Term Start:19 December 1988
Term End:5 July 1989
Constituency:Industrial and Commercial Panel
Birth Place:Limerick, Ireland
Death Place:Limerick, Ireland
Party:Fianna Fáil
Spouse:Áine ní Thuathaigh
Children:4

Tony Bromell (1932 – 3 January 2017)[1] was an educationalist and Fianna Fáil politician from Limerick in Ireland.

Born in Limerick in 1932, Bromell was a member of Fianna Fáil all his life, and was a member of Limerick City Council for 17 years, serving as Mayor of Limerick from 1982 to 1983. He was also briefly a senator, after winning a by-election to the 18th Seanad for the Industrial and Commercial Panel on 19 December 1988, following the death of Fine Gael senator Jack Daly.[2]

Bromell was registrar in Mary Immaculate College from 1967 until he retired in 1998. As chair of Chair of Limerick's Vocational Education Committee (VEC) in 1973, he was heavily involved in the establishment of the College of Art, Commerce and Technology (now TUS Limerick). He was also a founding member of a pressure group established in 1958 to campaign for a university for Limerick, which resulted the establishment in 1970 of the National Institute for Higher Education (NIHE),[3] and as a senator he was able to welcome the bill which in 1989 elevated NIHE to the University of Limerick.[4]

He died on 3 January 2017.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tributes following passing of former Mayor of Limerick Tony Bromell . Limerick Leader. 4 January 2017 .
  2. Web site: Tony Bromell . Oireachtas Members Database . 11 February 2008.
  3. Web site: Rian mo Chos ar Ghaineamh an tSaoil . 11 February 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071121015453/http://www.cic.ie//product.asp?idproduct=1053 . 21 November 2007.
  4. Web site: Official Report (Seanad Éireann), Volume 122, 1 June 1989, University of Limerick Bill, 1989: Second Stage . 11 February 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110609193203/http://www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie/S/0122/S.0122.198906010004.html . 9 June 2011 .
  5. Web site: Death notice of Tony Bromell. RIP.ie. 4 January 2017. 29 July 2024.