Grace O'Sullivan

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Grace O'Sullivan (2016)

Grace O'Sullivan (born March 8, 1962 in Tramore , County Waterford , Ireland ) is an Irish environmental activist and politician ( Green Party ). From 2016 to 2019 O'Sullivan was Senator for the Agricultural Panel of the Seanad Éireann , the Irish House of Lords. In the course of the 2019 European elections , she won a mandate in the constituency of Southern Ireland and has been a member of the ninth European Parliament since then .

Life

Grace O'Sullivan was born in Tramore in the southern Irish county of Waterford in 1962. In her youth, O'Sullivan devoted herself particularly to sports and volunteer life saving. At the age of 16 she joined the Tramore Sea and Cliff Rescue, at the age of 18 the local branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution . In 1981 she became the first woman to win the Irish National Surf Championship.

In 1983 O'Sullivan started working for the environmental organization Greenpeace ; Among other things, she spent more than ten years on various Greenpeace ships. O'Sullivan was, among other things, a member of the crew of the Rainbow Warrior before it was sunk by the French Foreign Secret Service near New Zealand in 1985 . She also worked for the organization at its headquarters in Amsterdam for several years.

In the 2014 European elections , O'Sullivan ran in the constituency of Southern Ireland, but only won a good 4 percent of the preferential vote there. Nor did she win a seat in the elections for the 32nd Irish Dáil in 2016. In 2016 she was elected as Senator for the Agricultural Panel of the Seanad Éireann , the Irish House of Lords - as the only Senator of the Irish Green Party.

In the 2019 European elections, the Irish Green Party won significantly more votes: In addition to Ciarán Cuffe in the Dublin constituency, Grace O'Sullivan in the constituency of Southern Ireland won one of the constituency's five mandates with 10.56 percent of the vote. In the meantime, a competitor had requested a recount, which she later renounced. Since then O'Sullivan has been a member of the ninth European Parliament ; she joined the group of the Greens / EFA together with Ciarán Cuffe . For her political group she is a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Committee on Fisheries .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dermot Keyes: Amazing Grace. In: Munster Express Online. September 19, 2008, accessed June 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ John Drennan: New Green Euro candidate climbed anchor of nuclear ship. In: The Independent. March 8, 2014, accessed June 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Daragh Brophy: The Greens' new senator on her activist past and the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. In: The Journal. May 14, 2016, accessed June 23, 2019 .
  4. ^ Hugh O'Connell: 'Our dream team': Here are the Green Party candidates for the European elections. In: The Journal. January 13, 2014, accessed June 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Grace O'Sullivan. In: ElectionsIreland.org :. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
  6. ^ Five independent Senators have formed a technical group in the Seanad. May 24, 2016, accessed June 23, 2019 .
  7. ^ Jennie O'Sullivan: O'Sullivan, Clune take final two seats in Ireland South. In: RTE.ie. June 5, 2019, accessed June 23, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Home | Grace O'SULLIVAN | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME O'Sullivan, Grace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish environmental activist and politician (Green Party)
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Tramore , County Waterford , Ireland