Mary Freehill

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Mary Freehill
Mary Freehill PES Group meeting 2019.jpg
Freehill in 2019
Dublin City Councillor
Assumed office
1977
ConstituencyKimmage-Rathmines Ward
Lord Mayor of Dublin
In office
July 1999 – July 2000
Preceded byJoe Doyle
Succeeded byMaurice Ahern
Personal details
Born (1946-07-22) 22 July 1946 (age 75)
NationalityIrish
Political partyLabour Party

Mary Freehill (born 22 July 1946) is a Dublin City Councillor and was the 329th Lord Mayor of Dublin,[1][2] serving during the Millennium Year from 5 July 1999 to 3 July 2000. She is the Labour Party Councillor for the Kimmage-Rathmines Ward on Dublin City Council.[3]

Freehill was born and went to school in the town of Ballyconnell, County Cavan. Her parents were Bernard Freehill, a building contractor and Kathleen Freehill (nee Donohoe) of Daisy Hill, Ballyconnell.

Freehill was elected to the city council in 1977 to 1985 for Pembroke Ward and was re-elected for Rathmines Ward in 1991. She has since been re-elected at each subsequent local election (1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019) for the same area, despite shifting ward boundaries. As Lord Mayor of Dublin City, she awarded the Freedom of the City to Nobel Peace Prize winner and Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi[4] and also to the rock band U2.

References[]

  1. ^ Humphreys, Joe. "Labour woman to be elected Dublin Mayor". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Mary to be city's fourth female Mayor". independent. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Byrne, Alderman Alfred, (1882–13 March 1956), formerly Lord Mayor of Dublin", Who Was Who, Oxford University Press, 1 December 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u235369, archived from the original on 27 September 2021, retrieved 27 October 2020
  4. ^ "Details of Aung San Suu Kyi public event on Monday night | Dublin City Council". www.dublincity.ie. Archived from the original on 9 December 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2020.

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