Maurice Hugh O'Connell (20 October 1936 â 6 April 2016) was a senator in Ireland. He was born in Penang, Malaysia.
He was a member of the Dublin City Council from 1967 to 1973. At the 1969 general election, he stood unsuccessfully as an independent candidate in the Dublin South-Central constituency.
He later joined Fine Gael and served in the Seanad from 1981 to 1983, elected to the short-lived 15th Seanad and 16th Seanad on the Labour Panel. He was defeated in the 1983 election to the 17th Seanad.
His great uncle William Hickie served as a senator from 1925 to 1936.
O'Connell died in Tralee on 6 April 2016, at the age of 79.