# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/padraig-faulkner
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:51:44.158Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/padraig-faulkner"
name: "Pádraig Faulkner"
slug: "padraig-faulkner"
description: "Pádraig Faulkner was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1980 to 1981, Minister for Defence 1979 to 1980, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs and Minister for Tourism and Transport from 1977 to 1979, Minister for Education from 1969 to 1973, Minister for the Gaeltacht and Minister for Lands from 1968 to 1969 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Gaeltacht from 1965 to 1968. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency from 1957 to 1987."
tagline: "Irish Fianna Fáil politician (1918-2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Padraig_Faulkner%2C_1980_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1918-03-12"
deathDate: "2012-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.073362666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Фолкнер, Патрик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "بادريج فولكنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "بادريج فولكنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1draig_Faulkner"
    title: "Pádraig Faulkner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1draig_Faulkner"
    title: "Pádraig Faulkner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1draig_Faulkner"
    title: "Pádraig Faulkner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1draig_Faulkner"
    title: "Pádraig Faulkner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1draig_Faulkner"
    title: "Pádraig Faulkner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1draig_Faulkner"
    title: "Pádraig Faulkner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q446570"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump