Mary Patricia McAleese (/mækəˈliːs/; née Leneghan; Irish:Máire Pádraigín Mhic Ghiolla Íosa; born 27 June 1951) served as the eighthPresident of Ireland from 1997 to 2011. She was the second female president and was first elected in 1997 succeeding Mary Robinson, making McAleese the world's first woman to succeed another as president. She was re-elected unopposed for a second term in office in 2004. McAleese is the first President of Ireland to have come from either Northern Ireland or Ulster.
McAleese graduated in Law from Queen's University Belfast. In 1975, she was appointed Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College, Dublin and in 1987, she returned to her Alma Mater, Queen's, to become Director of the Institute of Professional Legal Studies. In 1994, she became the first female Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University. She worked as a barrister and also worked as a journalist with RTÉ.
McAleese used her time in office to address issues concerning justice, social equality, social inclusion, anti-sectarianism and reconciliation. She described the theme of her Presidency as "Building Bridges". This bridge-building materialised in her attempts to reach out to the unionist community in Northern Ireland. These steps included celebrating the Twelfth of July at Áras an Uachtaráin and she even incurred criticism from some of the Irish Catholic hierarchy by taking communion in a Church of Ireland cathedral in Dublin. Despite being a practising Roman Catholic, she holds liberal views regarding homosexuality and women priests. She is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders and was ranked the 64th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. In spite of some minor controversies, McAleese remained popular and her Presidency is regarded as successful.
The Mary McAleese Boyne Valley Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in County Meath, Ireland. It spans the Boyne River3 kilometres (1.9mi) west of Drogheda on the county boundary between County Meath and County Louth and is part of the M1 Northern Motorway. When it opened in June 2003, it was the longest cable-stayed bridge in Ireland until 19 October 2009, when the River Suir Bridge opened on the N25.
Due to environmental concerns, an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was carried out for the bridge separately from the M1 EIS—the first such formal EIS carried out and published for a bridge in Ireland. The bridge was built from 2000 to 2003 and was designed by Roughan and O'Donovan, who were awarded the ACEI Presidential Award in 2005 for the design.
Overview
Designing a road bridge over the Boyne was not an easy task. At the chosen point, 3 kilometres (1.9mi) upstream from Drogheda, the ground level on the south is elevated, with a sudden drop while the north bank slopes gradually down to the river. The area is environmentally sensitive, especially the reed beds on the north bank and the flora and fauna of Yellow Island in the middle of the river. The area has a rich heritage as it is also situated adjacent to the area in which the Battle of the Boyne took place in 1690.
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Irish President Mary McAleese arrived in Omagh on Sunday to visit the friends and family of those injured or killed in yesterday's bomb blast which claimed the lives of 28 people.
The Irish president arrived at the Omagh leisure complex just minutes after Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness had entered the building.
The car bomb was the single most devastating terrorist attack in the last thirty years of Northern Ireland's bloody history, and the finger is being pointed at a dissident republican group opposed to the Good Friday agreement.
Mary McAleese saw for herself the extent of the devastation caused by yesterday's bomb that ripped through the busy high street in Omagh.
The clean up operation has started in earnest to clear up t...
published: 21 Jul 2015
Prof Mary McAleese in Conversation
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Catholic Social Teaching and Human Rights - Prof Mary McAleese
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Reeling in the Years | Mary McAleese speaking during the visit of Queen Elizabeth in 2011
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Dr Mary McAleese in Conversation with Professor Rónán McDonald
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Former President of Ireland Dr Mary McAleese reflects on her distinguished career and her life since the presidency, and her thoughts about contemporary Irish society, the peace process and the Irish diaspora. MORE INFORMATION:
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(16 Aug 1998) English/Nat
Irish President Mary McAleese arrived in Omagh on Sunday to visit the friends and family of those injured or killed in yesterday's...
(16 Aug 1998) English/Nat
Irish President Mary McAleese arrived in Omagh on Sunday to visit the friends and family of those injured or killed in yesterday's bomb blast which claimed the lives of 28 people.
The Irish president arrived at the Omagh leisure complex just minutes after Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness had entered the building.
The car bomb was the single most devastating terrorist attack in the last thirty years of Northern Ireland's bloody history, and the finger is being pointed at a dissident republican group opposed to the Good Friday agreement.
Mary McAleese saw for herself the extent of the devastation caused by yesterday's bomb that ripped through the busy high street in Omagh.
The clean up operation has started in earnest to clear up the debris from the blast that left 28 people dead and injured over 220.
Northern Irish police have already set up a task force to hunt down the bombers, who struck on the 29th anniversary of the first deployment of British troops on the streets of Northern Ireland.
The President expressed her horror at the bombing which she said occurred in spite of a majority vote for peace and diplomacy and a rejection of violence.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"To talk about them, these are...I said just a moment ago on another radio programme that if they are capable of what they accomplished yesterday I think it's important for all of us to understand that they are capable of anything. These are people...there are no markers, try and measure them against standards of human decency, they are off the scale, they are off the Richter scale, and so I don't know what they are capable of. Omagh yesterday gives me some chilling, absolutely terrifying insight into what they are capable of, all I do know is they absolutely have to be stopped, they have to be stopped now, I don't know what they are planning for tomorrow, any more than you do Dennis, but it scares me what they could be planning, and they are planning in the teeth of a country North and South which committed itself to consensus based politics, committed itself to a decent way forward, which said in the referendum just gone past that we were going to try to work together in partnership, to honour each other, to respect each other to find a new decent way of living together, and these people whoever they are, whatever their number yesterday in the most callous and brutal way, they gave us their answer, now I think we have to give them their answer by stopping them. There are people who know who they are and the simplest way of stopping them is for those people to surrender their names to the authorities."
SUPER CAPTION: Mary McAleese, Irish President
She then went on to visit friends and family of those killed or injured who are gathered inside the town's leisure complex awaiting news of their loved ones from the various hospitals in the area.
Earlier the leader of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams visited the scene and said he unreservedly condemned the terrorist bombing and urged people to move on and keep alive their hopes for real peace.
In the past Adams has categorically refused to condemn violence by the I-R-A or any other republican group.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
SUPER CAPTION: Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein.
Adams and Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's chief negotiator also paid a visit to the leisure complex.
No group has yet claimed responsibility though it's thought that a dissident republican group planted the bomb in order to wreck the Good Friday peace agreement that was to end 30 years of sectarian strife in the province.
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(16 Aug 1998) English/Nat
Irish President Mary McAleese arrived in Omagh on Sunday to visit the friends and family of those injured or killed in yesterday's bomb blast which claimed the lives of 28 people.
The Irish president arrived at the Omagh leisure complex just minutes after Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness had entered the building.
The car bomb was the single most devastating terrorist attack in the last thirty years of Northern Ireland's bloody history, and the finger is being pointed at a dissident republican group opposed to the Good Friday agreement.
Mary McAleese saw for herself the extent of the devastation caused by yesterday's bomb that ripped through the busy high street in Omagh.
The clean up operation has started in earnest to clear up the debris from the blast that left 28 people dead and injured over 220.
Northern Irish police have already set up a task force to hunt down the bombers, who struck on the 29th anniversary of the first deployment of British troops on the streets of Northern Ireland.
The President expressed her horror at the bombing which she said occurred in spite of a majority vote for peace and diplomacy and a rejection of violence.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"To talk about them, these are...I said just a moment ago on another radio programme that if they are capable of what they accomplished yesterday I think it's important for all of us to understand that they are capable of anything. These are people...there are no markers, try and measure them against standards of human decency, they are off the scale, they are off the Richter scale, and so I don't know what they are capable of. Omagh yesterday gives me some chilling, absolutely terrifying insight into what they are capable of, all I do know is they absolutely have to be stopped, they have to be stopped now, I don't know what they are planning for tomorrow, any more than you do Dennis, but it scares me what they could be planning, and they are planning in the teeth of a country North and South which committed itself to consensus based politics, committed itself to a decent way forward, which said in the referendum just gone past that we were going to try to work together in partnership, to honour each other, to respect each other to find a new decent way of living together, and these people whoever they are, whatever their number yesterday in the most callous and brutal way, they gave us their answer, now I think we have to give them their answer by stopping them. There are people who know who they are and the simplest way of stopping them is for those people to surrender their names to the authorities."
SUPER CAPTION: Mary McAleese, Irish President
She then went on to visit friends and family of those killed or injured who are gathered inside the town's leisure complex awaiting news of their loved ones from the various hospitals in the area.
Earlier the leader of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams visited the scene and said he unreservedly condemned the terrorist bombing and urged people to move on and keep alive their hopes for real peace.
In the past Adams has categorically refused to condemn violence by the I-R-A or any other republican group.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
SUPER CAPTION: Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein.
Adams and Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's chief negotiator also paid a visit to the leisure complex.
No group has yet claimed responsibility though it's thought that a dissident republican group planted the bomb in order to wreck the Good Friday peace agreement that was to end 30 years of sectarian strife in the province.
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Former President of Ireland Dr Mary McAleese reflects on her distinguished career and her life since the presidency, and her thoughts about contemporary Irish society, the peace process and the Irish diaspora. MORE INFORMATION:
https://irish.arts.unsw.edu.au/event/a-conversation-with-mary-mcaleese-former-president-of-ireland/
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Former President of Ireland Dr Mary McAleese reflects on her distinguished career and her life since the presidency, and her thoughts about contemporary Irish society, the peace process and the Irish diaspora. MORE INFORMATION:
https://irish.arts.unsw.edu.au/event/a-conversation-with-mary-mcaleese-former-president-of-ireland/
Former President Mary McAleese shares her concerns of Britain leaving Europe in an interview with Joe Duffy. Mary McAleese also talks to Joe Duffy of a powerful...
Former President Mary McAleese shares her concerns of Britain leaving Europe in an interview with Joe Duffy. Mary McAleese also talks to Joe Duffy of a powerful documentary she helped make about St.Columbanus. A man who understood the importance of uniting Europe – a lesson that our Former President tells Joe many could learn from today. She also tells Joe about the influence he had on her and her Presidency.
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Former President Mary McAleese shares her concerns of Britain leaving Europe in an interview with Joe Duffy. Mary McAleese also talks to Joe Duffy of a powerful documentary she helped make about St.Columbanus. A man who understood the importance of uniting Europe – a lesson that our Former President tells Joe many could learn from today. She also tells Joe about the influence he had on her and her Presidency.
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Former President of Ireland Mary McAleese on what it's like when you leave the Áras.
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(16 Aug 1998) English/Nat
Irish President Mary McAleese arrived in Omagh on Sunday to visit the friends and family of those injured or killed in yesterday's bomb blast which claimed the lives of 28 people.
The Irish president arrived at the Omagh leisure complex just minutes after Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness had entered the building.
The car bomb was the single most devastating terrorist attack in the last thirty years of Northern Ireland's bloody history, and the finger is being pointed at a dissident republican group opposed to the Good Friday agreement.
Mary McAleese saw for herself the extent of the devastation caused by yesterday's bomb that ripped through the busy high street in Omagh.
The clean up operation has started in earnest to clear up the debris from the blast that left 28 people dead and injured over 220.
Northern Irish police have already set up a task force to hunt down the bombers, who struck on the 29th anniversary of the first deployment of British troops on the streets of Northern Ireland.
The President expressed her horror at the bombing which she said occurred in spite of a majority vote for peace and diplomacy and a rejection of violence.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"To talk about them, these are...I said just a moment ago on another radio programme that if they are capable of what they accomplished yesterday I think it's important for all of us to understand that they are capable of anything. These are people...there are no markers, try and measure them against standards of human decency, they are off the scale, they are off the Richter scale, and so I don't know what they are capable of. Omagh yesterday gives me some chilling, absolutely terrifying insight into what they are capable of, all I do know is they absolutely have to be stopped, they have to be stopped now, I don't know what they are planning for tomorrow, any more than you do Dennis, but it scares me what they could be planning, and they are planning in the teeth of a country North and South which committed itself to consensus based politics, committed itself to a decent way forward, which said in the referendum just gone past that we were going to try to work together in partnership, to honour each other, to respect each other to find a new decent way of living together, and these people whoever they are, whatever their number yesterday in the most callous and brutal way, they gave us their answer, now I think we have to give them their answer by stopping them. There are people who know who they are and the simplest way of stopping them is for those people to surrender their names to the authorities."
SUPER CAPTION: Mary McAleese, Irish President
She then went on to visit friends and family of those killed or injured who are gathered inside the town's leisure complex awaiting news of their loved ones from the various hospitals in the area.
Earlier the leader of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams visited the scene and said he unreservedly condemned the terrorist bombing and urged people to move on and keep alive their hopes for real peace.
In the past Adams has categorically refused to condemn violence by the I-R-A or any other republican group.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
SUPER CAPTION: Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein.
Adams and Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's chief negotiator also paid a visit to the leisure complex.
No group has yet claimed responsibility though it's thought that a dissident republican group planted the bomb in order to wreck the Good Friday peace agreement that was to end 30 years of sectarian strife in the province.
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Former President of Ireland Dr Mary McAleese reflects on her distinguished career and her life since the presidency, and her thoughts about contemporary Irish society, the peace process and the Irish diaspora. MORE INFORMATION:
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Former President Mary McAleese shares her concerns of Britain leaving Europe in an interview with Joe Duffy. Mary McAleese also talks to Joe Duffy of a powerful documentary she helped make about St.Columbanus. A man who understood the importance of uniting Europe – a lesson that our Former President tells Joe many could learn from today. She also tells Joe about the influence he had on her and her Presidency.
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Mary Patricia McAleese (/mækəˈliːs/; née Leneghan; Irish:Máire Pádraigín Mhic Ghiolla Íosa; born 27 June 1951) served as the eighthPresident of Ireland from 1997 to 2011. She was the second female president and was first elected in 1997 succeeding Mary Robinson, making McAleese the world's first woman to succeed another as president. She was re-elected unopposed for a second term in office in 2004. McAleese is the first President of Ireland to have come from either Northern Ireland or Ulster.
McAleese graduated in Law from Queen's University Belfast. In 1975, she was appointed Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College, Dublin and in 1987, she returned to her Alma Mater, Queen's, to become Director of the Institute of Professional Legal Studies. In 1994, she became the first female Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University. She worked as a barrister and also worked as a journalist with RTÉ.
McAleese used her time in office to address issues concerning justice, social equality, social inclusion, anti-sectarianism and reconciliation. She described the theme of her Presidency as "Building Bridges". This bridge-building materialised in her attempts to reach out to the unionist community in Northern Ireland. These steps included celebrating the Twelfth of July at Áras an Uachtaráin and she even incurred criticism from some of the Irish Catholic hierarchy by taking communion in a Church of Ireland cathedral in Dublin. Despite being a practising Roman Catholic, she holds liberal views regarding homosexuality and women priests. She is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders and was ranked the 64th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. In spite of some minor controversies, McAleese remained popular and her Presidency is regarded as successful.
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