Déirdre de Búrca (born October 1963) is an Irish politician and a Green Party member of Seanad Éireann and is a candidate at the 2009 European Parliament election for the Dublin constituency.
De Búrca attended Ursuline Convent, Cabinteely (now Cabinteely Community School), became a primary school teacher, and later qualified and practised as a psychologist..
She was previously an elected member of Wicklow County Council and Bray Town Council for ...
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Déirdre de Búrca (born October 1963) is an Irish politician and a Green Party member of Seanad Éireann and is a candidate at the 2009 European Parliament election for the Dublin constituency.
De Búrca attended Ursuline Convent, Cabinteely (now Cabinteely Community School), became a primary school teacher, and later qualified and practised as a psychologist..
She was previously an elected member of Wicklow County Council and Bray Town Council for the Green Party. She was first elected in 1999 for the Bray district, and was returned with an increased vote in 2004, when she was also returned to the Town Council. She was born in Co. Dublin.
De Búrca won acclaim for recording a meeting of Wicklow county council. She claimed the meetings were being held in an undemocratic fashion, and councillors were not sufficiently accountable, particularly in relation to planning and rezoning decisions.
She ran for election to Dáil Éireann on two occasions but was not elected: at the 2002 general...
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