Mary Hanafin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mary Hanafin
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jun 1, 1959(1959-06-01)
Age	65
Birthplace	Thurles
Country	Ireland
Birth City	County Tipperary
Horoscope	Gemini

Mary Hanafin Biography

Mary Hanafin is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on June 1, 1959 in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. Hanafin is born in Thurles, County Tipperary, in the year 1959. The Hanafins are the daughters of Des Hanafin and Mona Hanafin. His father was an successful businessman and Fianna Fail Councillor, who was later senator at different times for more than 25 years, between 1969 to 2002. The brother of her John Hanafin was a member of Seanad Eireann from 2002 to the year 2011.

Hanafin is elected into the Dail at her second attempt at the 1997 general election in the Dun Laoghaire constituency. In her early years as a TD, she was a member on several Oireachtas committees which included Education and Science, Heritage and the Irish language as well as Justice, Equality and Women’s Affairs. The year 2000 saw Hanafin has been appointed Minister of State to Children in one of a series of junior ministry posts established by the government in 1997. She won the election in her district at the 2002 general election . She got the post as Minister of State within the Department of the Taoiseach; as well as an official in the junior (non-cabinet) minister and with a particular duty as the Chief Whip of the Government. The first woman to be appointed to the position.

Following a cabinet reshuffle in September 2004, Hanafin became Minister for Education and Science. Among her activities in that post, she abandoned the compilation of school league tables begun by her predecessor Noel Dempsey. She prioritised school bus safety following the death of five schoolgirls near Navan, County Meath, in 2005. This has mandated the provision of one seat per child and of the mandatory usage of seatbelts in school buses. She announced plans for a possible change of entry requirements to third-level medical education.

Hanafin was accused of bias towards private fee-paying schools in her constituency when awarding building grants to them in 2005. Christian Brothers College, Monkstown Park, and St. Andrew’s College both received building grants for extensions and works on their buildings. Only Belvedere College, Kilkenny College and Loreto Beaufort, Rathfarnham, had previously received money since 1995.

Her election for Dublin City Council at the 1985 local elections in those in the Rathmines local electoral region however she failed to win the nomination to Dail Eireann in the general elections in 1989 with the Dublin South-East constituency. She was sacked from Dublin City Council in 1991 and began to be involved in the administration within Fianna Fail. Fianna Fail party. She was elected treasurer of the national party in 1993. Hanafin was also the former vice-president of the National Youth Council of Ireland.

Mary Hanafin Net Worth

Mary Hanafin is one of the richest Politician from Ireland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mary Hanafin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Mary Hanafin (born 1 June 1959) is an Irish Fianna Fail politician who was Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport from 2010 until 2011. the Deputy Leader for Fianna Fail in January until March 2011. Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation from January 2011 until March 2011. Minister of Social and Family Affairs from 2008 until 2011. Minister of Education and Science from 2004 until 2008, Chief of the Government Whip from 2002 until 2004 , and then Minister of State to Children for the period from 2000 until 2002. She was an Teachta Dala (TD) for the Dun Laoghaire constituency from 1997 until 2011.

Hanafin was active in politics as early as when she was 15. She was the daughter of Des Hanafin, as well as being a senator for Fianna Fail as well as an early part of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) and was a firm anti-abortion, contraception and divorce. She became a member of Ogra Fianna Fail aged fifteen and made her debut at Ard Fheis just two years afterward. Hanafin’s first involvement with national politics in the year 1980, when at the age of 21 she became a member of be a member of the Fianna Fail national executive, the body that governs the party.

Hanafin married Eamon Leahy, a Senior Counsel, in 1985. He died suddenly on 17 July 2003, aged 46. The couple had no children.

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During the course of the 2009 local elections, Hanafin became embroiled in a number of controversies. In late April the Mail on Sunday ran a story claiming her office had improperly used Oireachtas envelopes—which are provided at taxpayers’ expense—to promote a campaign launch for her personal assistant Peter O’Brien, who was a candidate in the Dún Laoghaire electoral area. In late May Hanafin became embroiled in further controversy when a national newspaper ran a story claiming her office had again used taxpayer-funded resources to promote O’Brien in correspondence to voters in the Dún Laoghaire constituency. O’Brien was not elected at those local elections.

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On 22 January 2011, after the resignation of Brian Cowen, Hanafin put her name forward as a candidate for leader of Fianna Fáil. At the 2011 general election she lost her Dáil seat to Richard Boyd Barrett of the People Before Profit. She briefly withdrew from public life, but in April 2011, the Fianna Fáil National Executive co-opted her as one of the five Vice-Presidents of the party.