sentences:  In the 1895 general election the prominent anti-Parnellite John Dillon attempted to oust him from South Roscommon, by standing there as well as in his own seat of Mayo East.Dillon however made little dent in his majority, Hayden taking 58 per cent of the vote, again in a straight fight.Luke Hayden was a popular local figure and his funeral cortège in the county town of Roscommon on 25 June 1897 was over a mile long.