President Michael D Higgins has lead tributes to former Fine Gael politician Mary Banotti, who has died.
“I had the privilege of personally knowing Mary over a number of decades and had the deepest respect for her principled positions on these important issues.Northern Lights set to return to Irish skies on Saturday nightMs Banotti, the eldest of six from Clontarf, Dublin, worked as a nurse abroad before becoming a politician.
“Another area she broke new ground was in her work supporting parentally abducted children in the EU, the first person to hold the official role,” Mr Harris said. “Mary wrote once that her mother grafted hard to put her six children through education, that she was highly ambitious for them, and that she wanted her children to come out of the top drawer and make something of themselves, Mr Harris said. “Mary Banotti did that, and then some.”
“Mary was a wonderful person and an upstanding and fearless representative for Dublin and Ireland in the European Parliament for 20 years. She made an enormous impact,” she said. She left Ireland in the mid-1950s to train as a nurse in London. Four years later, she moved to the United States and lived in New York, Canada and Kenya, where she worked as an aid worker.
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