Walter Furlong

Who was Walter Furlong?

Walter Furlong was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was elected on his second attempt, to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála for the Cork Borough constituency at the 1944 general election. He lost his Dáil seat at the 1948 general election, and was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1951 general election.

Furlong was a member of Cork City Council and served as Lord Mayor of Cork in 1951.

According to his death notice Furlong was in "G" Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Cork Brigade, Old IRA in 1916, and had been interned on Bere Island, released on the signing of the Truce.