Complex sentence: A farmer by profession he first became involved in national politics in 1997, when he was elected in the 1997 general election to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD.
Split into simpler sentences: A farmer by profession he first became involved in national politics in 1997. At the General election in that year he was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD.