Henry Coyle was an Irish

Ireland

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 army officer and later a Cumann na nGaedheal party politician.

He was elected at the 1923 general election

Irish general election, 1923

The Irish general election of 1923 was held on 27 August 1923. The newly elected members of the 4th Dáil assembled at Leinster House on 19 September when the new President of the Executive Council and Executive Council of the Irish Free State were appointed. The election was held just after the end...

 to the 4th Dáil as Teachta Dála

Teachta Dála

A Teachta Dála , usually abbreviated as TD in English, is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas . It is the equivalent of terms such as "Member of Parliament" or "deputy" used in other states. The official translation of the term is "Deputy to the Dáil", though a more literal...

 (TD) for Mayo North

Mayo North (Dáil Éireann constituency)

Mayo North was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1923 to 1969...

. In 1924, Coyle was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for bouncing

Non-sufficient funds

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 cheque

Cheque

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s. Because his sentence was for more than six months, he was disqualified from the Oireachtas

Oireachtas

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 as from 7 May 1924 under Section 51 of the Electoral Act 1923. The by-election

By-election

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 caused by his disqualification was won by John Madden

John Madden (Irish politician)

John Anthony Madden was an Irish politician and medical practitioner. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála for the Mayo North constituency at the 1924 by-election caused by the disqualification of Henry Coyle of Cumann na nGaedheal...

 of Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...

.

Coyle remains the only TD to have been disqualified in this way. Other TDs who have been imprisoned, such as Tony Gregory

Tony Gregory

Tony Gregory was an Irish Independent politician and a Teachta Dála for the Dublin Central constituency from 1982 to 2009.-Early life:...

 in the 1980s, Liam Lawlor

Liam Lawlor

Liam Aloysius Lawlor was an Irish politician who resigned from the Fianna Fáil political party following a finding by a Party standards committee that he had failed to co-operate with its investigation into planning irregularities, and subsequently came into conflict with the Mahon Tribunal.-Early...

 in 2002 or the Mayo Clann na Talmhan

Clann na Talmhan

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 TDs Dominick Cafferky

Dominick Cafferky

Dominick Cafferky was an Irish Clann na Talmhan politician. A farmer, from Kilkelly County Mayo, he was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1943 general election as a Clann na Talmhan Teachta Dála for the Mayo South constituency. He was re-elected at the 1944 general election but lost his seat...

 and Bernard Commons

Bernard Commons

Bernard Commons was an Irish politician. A farmer by profession, he was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1943 and 1944 general elections. He was elected to Dáil Éireann at the Mayo South by-election on 4 December 1945 as a Clann na Talmhan Teachta Dála for the Mayo South constituency...

in the 1940s, received sentences of less than 6 months.