Eddie Filgate

Edward "Eddie" Filgate (16 September 1915 – 19 January 2017) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served for 5 years as Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency. Filgate was first elected to the 21st Dáil at the 1977 general election. He was re-elected twice, at the 1981 and the February 1982 general elections. He did not contest the November 1982 general election.

Filgate and his wife Elish who died in 1989 had five children. One of 11 children, he lived in his native village of Louth, near Dundalk, next to the site of the house he grew up in. He became a centenarian in September 2015. Filgate died on 19 January 2017, aged 101.