Mary Fitzpatrick
| Mary Fitzpatrick | |
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| Dublin City Councillor | |
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In office November 2003 – June 2014 |
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| Constituency | Cabra-Glasnevin |
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| Born |
20 February 1969 Dublin, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Fianna Fáil |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin |
| Website | www |
Mary Fitzpatrick is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician and former member of Dublin City Council, representing the Cabra-Glasnevin electoral area. In 2011, prior to the general election she was appointed Fianna Fáil party spokesperson on Housing and Urban Development, despite not being a member of the Oireachtas.
Fitzpatrick is from the Navan Road in Dublin and was educated at Our Lady Help of Christians and St Dominic's College Cabra before graduating from University College Dublin with a BA in German and Italian. She also speaks French.
She emigrated in the 1980s, living and working abroad with roles in the hospitality, manufacturing, education and construction sectors. From the early 1990s she held International Sales and Marketing roles.
Fitzpatrick lives in Glasnevin, Dublin with her husband Sean Cody, and their three children.
Fitzpatrick was co-opted to the Council in 2003 to replace her father, Dermot Fitzpatrick TD, who stood down after the Local Government Act 2001 prohibited sitting members of the Oireachtas from holding local authority seats. She was re-elected at the 2004 local elections, polling over 10% of the vote.
At the 2007 general election, held under Ireland's single transferable vote system, rival Cyprian Brady polled just 939 first preference votes (2.7%) in the first count, compared to Fitzgerald's 1,725. However he was elected on the fourth count, due in large part to transfers from his running mate, the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, and became only the second ever TD (after Brian O'Higgins) to be elected with less than 1,000 first-preference votes.
The election became the subject of a public controversy, covered in national newspapers and on the RTÉ Radio 1 news programme Drivetime and on the weekly Documentary on One which had been covering the campaigns of the three female candidates in the constituency.
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