Sean McEniff

Sean McEniff (January 1936 – 21 April 2017) was an Irish businessman and Fianna Fáil politician from County Donegal. He was a member of Donegal County Council, representing the Donegal Electoral Area. At the time of his death in 2017, he was the longest serving councillor in Ireland.

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He was first elected to Donegal County Council in 1967 and was returned every time until the final election before his death, with the exception of 1979 when he stood in the 1979 European Parliament election in the Connacht–Ulster, though was not elected. He was Director of Bord Fáilte between 1993 and 1998. He was also named Donegal Person of the Year in 1996.

McEniff was the owner of the Tyrconnell Group, an Irish hotel chain. In 2007, Tyrconnell merged with the Brian McEniff Hotel Group, owned by his brother, Brian McEniff, to form McEniff Hotels. The Dublin branch of McEniff's hotel chain was picketed by protesters in 2013, after he made comments about Irish Travellers.

McEniff died at the Mater Private Hospital in Dublin on 21 April 2017. He had been in an induced coma after collapsing into water whilst on holiday in Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria in October 2016.