Mary Freehill
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Mary Freehill (born 22 July 1946) is a Dublin City Councillor, served as the Lord Mayor of Dublin during the Millennium year from 5 July 1999 to 3 July 2000.[1][2][3] She is the Labour Party councillor for the Kimmage–Rathmines electoral area on Dublin City Council.[4]
Mary Freehill | |
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Dublin City Councillor | |
Assumed office 1977 | |
Constituency | Kimmage–Rathmines |
Lord Mayor of Dublin | |
In office July 1999 – July 2000 | |
Preceded by | Joe Doyle |
Succeeded by | Maurice Ahern |
Personal details | |
Born | (1946-07-22) 22 July 1946 (age 77) |
Nationality | Irish |
Political party | Labour Party |
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. She is a second cousin of Vin Scully, the former long-time play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers.[5]
Freehill was elected to the city council in 1977 to 1985 for Pembroke electoral area and was re-elected for Rathmines electoral area in 1991. She has since been re-elected at each subsequent local election (1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019) for the same area. She was an unsuccessful Labour Party candidate for Dublin South-East at the 1977 and 1981 general elections, and for Dublin Central at the 1987 general election.[6]
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 and also to the rock band U2.[7]