Roger Garland
Roger Garland | |
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Teachta Dála | |
In office June 1989 – November 1992 | |
Constituency | Dublin South |
Personal details | |
Born | February 1933 (age 91) Dublin, Ireland |
Political party | Green Party |
Education | Castleknock College |
Roger Garland (born February 1933) is an Irish environmental activist and a former Green Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South constituency from 1989 to 1992.[1] He was the Green Party's first candidate to be elected to Dáil Éireann.
Biography
Garland was educated at Castleknock College in Dublin. He was a founder member of the Green Party.
He stood for the Green Party at the 1989 general election, and was elected to represent Dublin South, becoming the party's first ever TD.[2] Garland lost his seat following the 1992 general election with a dramatic fall in his vote, dropping from 8.8% in 1989 to 3.8%, which was among the lowest votes for a sitting TD.[3][4]
At the 1994 European Parliament election, Garland backed an independent Green candidate Peter Sweetman, over the official Green Party candidate, Nuala Ahern, in the Leinster constituency.[4] Ahern went on to win the seat, to the surprise of many, and an attempt was made to throw Garland out of the party for his disloyalty, including a vote in a specially convened party council.[4][5] Following the 2007 general election, Garland was one of the leading internal critics of the Greens' decision to enter coalition with Fianna Fáil.
In 1997, he helped found Friends of the Irish Environment, a network of independent environmentalists. He was also chairman of the Keep Ireland Open, and was a member of the environmental board of An Taisce.
References
- ^ "Roger Garland". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
- ^ "Green Party | political party, Ireland". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
- ^ "Roger Garland". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
- ^ a b c "Maybe still just a little bit too green". independent. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
- ^ O'Neill, Michael (2019). Green Parties and Political Change in Contemporary Europe: New Politics, Old Predicaments. Routledge. p. 330.
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Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | |||||||
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2nd | 1921 | Thomas Kelly (SF) | Daniel McCarthy (SF) | Constance Markievicz (SF) | Cathal Ó Murchadha (SF) | 4 seats 1921–1923 | |||||||||
3rd | 1922 | Thomas Kelly (PT-SF) | Daniel McCarthy (PT-SF) | William O'Brien (Lab) | Myles Keogh (Ind) | ||||||||||
4th | 1923 | Philip Cosgrave (CnaG) | Daniel McCarthy (CnaG) | Constance Markievicz (Rep) | Cathal Ó Murchadha (Rep) | Michael Hayes (CnaG) | Peadar Doyle (CnaG) | ||||||||
1923 by-election | Hugh Kennedy (CnaG) | ||||||||||||||
March 1924 by-election | James O'Mara (CnaG) | ||||||||||||||
November 1924 by-election | Seán Lemass (SF) | ||||||||||||||
1925 by-election | Thomas Hennessy (CnaG) | ||||||||||||||
5th | 1927 (Jun) | James Beckett (CnaG) | Vincent Rice (NL) | Constance Markievicz (FF) | Thomas Lawlor (Lab) | Seán Lemass (FF) | |||||||||
1927 by-election | Thomas Hennessy (CnaG) | ||||||||||||||
6th | 1927 (Sep) | Robert Briscoe (FF) | Myles Keogh (CnaG) | Frank Kerlin (FF) | |||||||||||
7th | 1932 | James Lynch (FF) | |||||||||||||
8th | 1933 | James McGuire (CnaG) | Thomas Kelly (FF) | ||||||||||||
9th | 1937 | Myles Keogh (FG) | Thomas Lawlor (Lab) | Joseph Hannigan (Ind) | Peadar Doyle (FG) | ||||||||||
10th | 1938 | James Beckett (FG) | James Lynch (FF) | ||||||||||||
1939 by-election | John McCann (FF) | ||||||||||||||
11th | 1943 | Maurice Dockrell (FG) | James Larkin Jnr (Lab) | John McCann (FF) | |||||||||||
12th | 1944 | ||||||||||||||
13th | 1948 | Constituency abolished. See Dublin South-Central, Dublin South-East and Dublin South-West. |
Note that the boundaries of Dublin South from 1981–2016 share no common territory with the 1921–1948 boundaries. See §History and boundaries
Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | |||||
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22nd | 1981 | Niall Andrews (FF) | Séamus Brennan (FF) | Nuala Fennell (FG) | John Kelly (FG) | Alan Shatter (FG) | |||||
23rd | 1982 (Feb) | ||||||||||
24th | 1982 (Nov) | ||||||||||
25th | 1987 | Tom Kitt (FF) | Anne Colley (PDs) | ||||||||
26th | 1989 | Nuala Fennell (FG) | Roger Garland (GP) | ||||||||
27th | 1992 | Liz O'Donnell (PDs) | Eithne FitzGerald (Lab) | ||||||||
28th | 1997 | Olivia Mitchell (FG) | |||||||||
29th | 2002 | Eamon Ryan (GP) | |||||||||
30th | 2007 | Alan Shatter (FG) | |||||||||
2009 by-election | George Lee (FG) | ||||||||||
31st | 2011 | Shane Ross (Ind) | Peter Mathews (FG) | Alex White (Lab) | |||||||
32nd | 2016 | Constituency abolished. See Dublin Rathdown, Dublin South-West and Dún Laoghaire. |