Retirement
In retirement Gibbons suffered from ill health and suffered a number of heart attacks and strokes. He never fully recovered from the physical assault on him outside the Dáil in 1982.
In 1986 Gibbons offered his support to Desmond O'Malley and the new Progressive Democrats, as he believed that there was no longer a place for him within Haughey's Fianna Fáil party. His son, Martin Gibbons was elected to the Dáil form the new party in the 1987 general election. In 1997 another son, Jim Gibbons, Jnr, was nominated by the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern as a member of the 21st Seanad.
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