Cllr
Mary Freehill
Freehill in 2015
Dublin City Councillor
Assumed office
1977
ConstituencyKimmage–Rathmines
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
NationalityIrish
Political partyLabour Party

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]

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]

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. ↑ "Lord Mayors of Dublin 1665–2020" (PDF). Dublin City Council. June 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  4. ↑ "Byrne, Alderman Alfred". 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. (subscription required)
  5. ↑ Seamus Enright (11 September 2016). "Inside Story: Vin's last innings". Anglo Celt. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  6. ↑ "Mary Freehill". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  7. ↑ "Details of Aung San Suu Kyi public event on Monday night". www.dublincity.ie. Archived from the original on 9 December 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
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