Mary Harney

Mary Harney
Harney in 2007
Minister for Health and Children
In office
29 September 2004 – 19 January 2011
Taoiseach
Preceded byMicheál Martin
Succeeded byMary Coughlan
Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment
In office
26 June 1997 – 13 September 2004
TaoiseachBertie Ahern
Preceded byRichard Bruton
Succeeded byMicheál Martin
Tánaiste
In office
26 June 1997 – 13 September 2006
TaoiseachBertie Ahern
Preceded byDick Spring
Succeeded byMichael McDowell
Leader of the Progressive Democrats
In office
25 May 2007 – 17 April 2008
Preceded byMichael McDowell
Succeeded byCiarán Cannon
In office
26 October 1993 – 11 September 2006
Preceded byDesmond O'Malley
Succeeded byMichael McDowell
Minister of State
1989–1992Environment
Teachta Dála
In office
May 2002 – February 2011
ConstituencyDublin Mid-West
In office
June 1981 – May 2002
ConstituencyDublin South-West
Senator
In office
27 October 1977 – 11 June 1981
ConstituencyNominated by the Taoiseach
Personal details
Born (1953-03-11) 11 March 1953
Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland
Political partyIndependent (since 2009)
Other political
affiliations
Spouse
Brian Geoghegan
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(m. 2001)​
Alma materTrinity College Dublin

Mary Harney (born 11 March 1953) is an Irish former politician and the former Chancellor of the University of Limerick.

She was leader of the Progressive Democrats party between 1993 and 2006 and again from 2007 to 2008, resuming the role after her successor, Michael McDowell, lost his seat at the 2007 general election. She is the second longest-ever-serving female member of Dáil Éireann, serving as a Teachta Dála (TD) successively for the Dublin South-West and Dublin Mid-West constituencies from 1981 to 2011.

She was Ireland's first female Tánaiste from 1997 to 2006, and the first woman to lead a party in Dáil Éireann.

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