Mary MaAleese

b 27 June 1951

Barrister, academic and journalist, second woman President of Ireland and the forst President to have been born in Northerfn Ireland.

The day of the dinosaurs is over. The future belongs to the bridge-builders, not the wreckers.

On the elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, Irish Times, 27 June 1998

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