Fianna Fáil Candidates for 1981 general election
| Candidate | Constituency | Elected | |
| Liam Aylward | Carlow–Kilkenny |  | |
| Patrick Carpenter | Carlow–Kilkenny | ||
| Jim Gibbons | Carlow–Kilkenny | ||
| Mick Lanigan | Carlow–Kilkenny | ||
 | Tom Nolan | Carlow–Kilkenny | |
| Jimmy Leonard | Cavan–Monaghan | ||
| Rory O'Hanlon | Cavan–Monaghan | | |
| Michael Smith | Cavan–Monaghan | ||
| John Wilson | Cavan–Monaghan | | |
| Sylvester Barrett | Clare | | |
| Brendan Daly | Clare | | |
| Bill Loughnane | Clare | | |
| Bernard McNamara | Clare | ||
| John Brosnan | Cork East | ||
| Joe Dowling | Cork East | ||
| Carey Joyce | Cork East | | |
| Charles Mortell | Cork East | ||
| Seán French | Cork North–Central | | |
| Denis Lyons | Cork North–Central | | |
| Mairín Quill | Cork North–Central | ||
| Dan Wallace | Cork North–Central | ||
| Thomas Meaney | Cork North–West | | |
| Donal Moynihan | Cork North–West | ||
| Chrissie Ahern | Cork South–Central | ||
| Barry Cogan | Cork South–Central | ||
| Gene Fitzgerald | Cork South–Central | | |
| Pearse Wyse | Cork South–Central | | |
| Peter Callanan | Cork South–West | ||
| Flor Crowley | Cork South–West | | |
| Eithne O'Mahony | Cork South–West | ||
| Joe Walsh | Cork South–West | ||
| Hugh Conaghan | Donegal North–East | | |
| Bernard McGlinchey | Donegal North–East | ||
| Clement Coughlan | Donegal South–West | | |
 | Pat the Cope Gallagher | Donegal South–West | |
| Bertie Ahern | Dublin Central | | |
| George Colley | Dublin Central | | |
| Tom Leonard | Dublin Central | ||
| Ray Burke | Dublin North | | |
| Patrick Dunne | Dublin North | ||
| Joe Fox | Dublin North | ||
| Vincent Brady | Dublin North–Central | | |
| Charles Haughey | Dublin North–Central | | |
| Eugene Timmons | Dublin North–Central | ||
| Ned Brennan | Dublin North–East | ||
| Liam Fitzgerald | Dublin North–East | | |
| Michael Woods | Dublin North–East | | |
| Michael Barrett | Dublin North–West | | |
| Timothy Killeen | Dublin North–West | ||
| Jim Tunney | Dublin North–West | | |
| Niall Andrews | Dublin South | | |
| Seamus Brennan | Dublin South | | |
| Síle de Valera | Dublin South | ||
| Tom Kitt | Dublin South | ||
| Ben Briscoe | Dublin South–Central | | |
| Thomas J. Fitzpatrick | Dublin South–Central | | |
| Brian Hillery | Dublin South–Central | ||
| Gerard Brady | Dublin South–East | | |
| Michael Donnelly | Dublin South–East | ||
| Sean Moore | Dublin South–East | | |
| Richard Conroy | Dublin South–West | ||
| Mary Harney | Dublin South–West | | |
| Seán Walsh | Dublin South–West | ||
| Thomas Boland | Dublin West | ||
| Liam Lawlor | Dublin West | ||
| Eileen Lemass | Dublin West | | |
| Brian Lenihan, Snr | Dublin West | | |
| David Andrews | Dún Laoghaire | | |
| Hazel Boland | Dún Laoghaire | ||
| William Harvey | Dún Laoghaire | ||
| Martin O'Donoghue | Dún Laoghaire | | |
| Johnny Callanan | Galway East | | |
| Thomas Hussey | Galway East | ||
| Michael P. Kitt | Galway East | | |
| Frank Fahey | Galway West | ||
| Máire Geoghegan-Quinn | Galway West | | |
| Mark Killilea, Jnr | Galway West | | |
| Bobby Molloy | Galway West | | |
| Nicholas O'Connor | Galway West | ||
| Kit Ahern | Kerry North | ||
| Denis Foley | Kerry North | | |
| Tom McEllistrim, Jnr | Kerry North | | |
| Timothy O'Connor | Kerry South | ||
| John O'Donoghue | Kerry South | ||
 | John O'Leary | Kerry South | |
| Gerry Brady | Kildare | ||
| Charlie McCreevy | Kildare | | |
| Martin Miley | Kildare | ||
| Paddy Power | Kildare | | |
| Ger Connolly | Laois–Offaly | | |
| Bernard Cowen | Laois–Offaly | | |
| Liam Hyland | Laois–Offaly | | |
| Jeremiah Lodge | Laois–Offaly | ||
| Peadar Clohessy | Limerick East | | |
| Éamonn Cregan | Limerick East | ||
 | Willie O'Dea | Limerick East | |
| Desmond O'Malley | Limerick East | | |
| Gerry Collins | Limerick West | | |
| Michael J. Noonan | Limerick West | | |
| Seán Fallon | Longford–Westmeath | ||
| Seán Keegan | Longford–Westmeath | | |
| Albert Reynolds | Longford–Westmeath | | |
| Thomas Bellew | Louth | ||
| John Connor | Louth | ||
| Eddie Filgate | Louth | | |
| Nicholas McCabe | Louth | ||
| John Bolingbrook | Mayo East | ||
| Sean Calleary | Mayo East | | |
| P. J. Morley | Mayo East | | |
| Padraig Flynn | Mayo West | | |
| Denis Gallagher | Mayo West | | |
| Timothy Quinn | Mayo West | ||
| Seán Conway | Meath | ||
| Brendan Crinion | Meath | | |
| Jim Fitzsimons | Meath | | |
| Michael Lynch | Meath | ||
| Sean Doherty | Roscommon | | |
| Terry Leyden | Roscommon | | |
| Matt Brennan | Sligo–Leitrim | ||
| John Ellis | Sligo–Leitrim | | |
| Ray MacSharry | Sligo–Leitrim | | |
| Des Hanafin | Tipperary North | ||
| Ger Ryan | Tipperary North | ||
| Michael Smith | Tipperary North | | |
| Carrie Acheson | Tipperary South | | |
| Seán Byrne | Tipperary South | ||
| Sean McCarthy | Tipperary South | | |
| Jackie Fahey | Waterford | | |
| Billy Kenneally | Waterford | | |
| Brian Swift | Waterford | ||
| Lorcan Allen | Wexford | | |
| Sean Browne | Wexford | ||
| Hugh Byrne | Wexford | | |
| Gus Byrne | Wexford | ||
| Paudge Brennan | Wicklow | | |
| Declan Connolly | Wicklow | ||
| Ciaran Murphy | Wicklow | | |
| Jim Ruttle | Wicklow |