{{Short description|Irish politician (1935–1968)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | office = [[Minister of State (Ireland)|Parliamentary Secretary]] | suboffice = [[Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine|Agriculture and Fisheries]] | subterm = 1966–1968 | office1 = [[Teachta Dála]] | term_start1 = [[1965 Irish general election|April 1965]] | term_end1 = 2 November 1968 | constituency1 = [[Tipperary South (Dáil constituency)|Tipperary South]] | party = [[Fianna Fáil]] | birth_name = Owen Don Bosco Davern | birth_date = {{birth date|1935|3|4|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Cashel, County Tipperary]], Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|1968|11|2|1935|3|4|df=y}} | death_place = County Tipperary, Ireland | alma_mater = | education = | spouse = Joan Hannigan | children = | father = [[Michael Davern]] | relatives = [[Noel Davern]] (brother) }} '''Donal Davern''' (4 March 1935 – 2 November 1968) was an Irish [[Fianna Fáil]] politician.<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Donal-Davern.D.1965-04-21/|title=Donal Davern|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=12 October 2012}}</ref>
He was elected to [[Dáil Éireann]] as a Fianna Fáil [[Teachta Dála]] (TD) for the [[Tipperary South (Dáil constituency)|Tipperary South]] constituency at the [[1965 Irish general election|1965 general election]] succeeding his father, [[Michael Davern]].<ref name=elecs_irl>{{cite web|url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2808|title=Donal Davern|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=12 October 2012}}</ref> In November 1966, he was appointed [[Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine|Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries]].
He died suddenly before completing his first term in [[Dáil Éireann]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1968-11-05/27/|title=Death of Member - Expression of Sympathy|date=5 November 1968|publisher=Oireachtas Debates|access-date=20 June 2011}}</ref> His brother [[Noel Davern]] was elected at the [[1969 Irish general election|subsequent general election]].<ref name=dib>{{cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/davern-owen-don-bosco-don-a2416|title=Davern, Owen Don Bosco|work=[[Dictionary of Irish Biography]]|last=White|first=Lawrence William|access-date=22 October 2022}}</ref>
==See also== *[[Families in the Oireachtas]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before = [[Patrick Lalor]]}} {{s-ttl|title = [[Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine|Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries]] |years = 1966–1968}} {{s-non|reason = Office abolished}} {{s-end}} {{Tipperary South (Dáil constituency)/TDs}}
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