In 1993, three years into her presidency of Ireland, Mary Robinson paid a visit to west Belfast. She defeated Fianna Fáil's Brian Lenihan and Fine Gael's Austin Currie in the 1990 presidential election, the first time Fianna Fáil had lost a presidential election. With a career spanning law, politics and diplomacy over decades and across the globe, Robinson’s electoral success was the springboard to a lifetime devoted to being a voice for the vulnerable, both in Ireland and worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_presidential_election,_1990 https://www.irishcentral.com/news/woman-changed-ireland-mary-robinson Born on 21 May 1944 in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland, Mary Robinson was called to the bar in 1967 and, two years later, became the youngest Reid Professor of Constitutional Law at Trinity College, Dublin. Mary Robinson (Irish: Máire Mhic Róibín; born 21 May 1944) was the first female President of Ireland, serving from 1990 to 1997.She had been an academic, barrister, and member of the Irish senate from 1969 to 1989. Mary Robinson is president of the Mary Robinson Foundation: Climate Justice, and the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Change. She was the president of Ireland from 1990-1997 and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002, and is now a member of The Elders and the Club of Madrid. Before she was elected President of Ireland in 1990, Mrs. Robinson served as Senator for 20 years. In 1995, Irish President Mary Robinson, later UN Commissioner for Human Rights, visited the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to thank the Choctaws for their generosity toward the Irish, a … FORMER President of Ireland Mary Robinson has said that Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the 2020 US election is “undermining democracy”. The 76-year-old appeared on The Late Lat…
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