title: Peter Sands (politician)
text: # Peter Sands (politician)
  
  Peter Sands (1 May 1924 – 17 October 2015) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who briefly served as a member of the 22nd Seanad Éireann. He was nominated by the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, on 23 June 2007, to fill a vacancy left by the election of Brendan Kenneally to the Dáil at the 2007 general election. He was not nominated to the 23rd Seanad.
  
  Sands was a lifelong trade unionist and former president of the Local Government and Public Services Union. He was a director of elections for Fianna Fáil in County Louth.
  
  Sands died on 17 October 2015.
  
  