Mary Freehill | |
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![]() Freehill in 2015 | |
Dublin City Councillor | |
In office 1977–2024 | |
Constituency | Kimmage–Rathmines |
Lord Mayor of Dublin | |
In office July 1999 –July 2000 | |
Preceded by | Joe Doyle |
Succeeded by | Maurice Ahern |
Personal details | |
Born | Ballyconnell,County Cavan,Ireland | 22 July 1946
Political party | Labour Party |
Mary Freehill (born 22 July 1946) is a former Dublin City Councillor,who served as the Lord Mayor of Dublin during the Millennium year from 5 July 1999 to 3 July 2000. [1] [2] [3] She was a Labour Party councillor on Dublin City Council from 1977 to 2024. [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 was 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 band U2. [7]
Freehill did not contest the 2024 Dublin City Council election. [8]