Mary McAleese

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mary McAleese
Occupation	World Leader
Date Of Birth	Jun 27, 1951(1951-06-27)
Age	73
Birthplace	Belfast
Country	Ireland
Horoscope	Gemini

Mary McAleese Biography

Mary McAleese is one of the most popular and richest World Leader who was born on June 27, 1951 in Belfast, Ireland. Polittician and lawyer who was President of the 8th Republic of Ireland between 1997 and 2011. Her popularity was due to her social equality stance and was the only President from Ireland to come out of either Northern Ireland or Ulster.

Michael Higgins replaced her as President of Ireland in November 2011. replaced her as the President of Ireland in November of 2011.

McAleese used her time in office to address issues concerning justice, social equality, social inclusion, anti-sectarianism and reconciliation. She described her presidency’s theme as “Building Bridges”. This bridge-building materialised in her attempts to reach out to the unionist community in Northern Ireland. These steps included celebrating the Twelfth of July at Áras an Uachtaráin and taking communion in a Church of Ireland cathedral in Dublin, for which she incurred some criticism from some of the Irish Catholic hierarchy. Though a practising Roman Catholic, McAleese holds liberal views on homosexuality and women priests. She is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders and was ranked the 64th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. In spite of some minor controversies, McAleese remained popular and her presidency is regarded as successful.

Born Mary Patricia Leneghan (Irish: Máire Pádraigín Ní Lionnacháin), in Ardoyne, north Belfast, McAleese was the eldest of nine children. She is a Roman Catholic but grew up in a largely Protestant neighbourhood. Loyalists forced her family to leave the area when the Troubles broke out. She was educated at St Dominic’s High School. She studied law at Queen’s University Belfast, graduating in 1973 with first class honours. She was called to the Northern Irish Bar in 1974, and remains a member of the Irish Bar.

She got married to dentist and accountant, Martin McAleese in 1997.

Mary McAleese Net Worth

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

She was barrister, and was appointed professor in Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College, Dublin.

The woman who succeeded Mary Robinson as President, which makes her the first female leader to succeed another.

Mary Patricia McAleese (/m æ k ə ˈ l iː s / ; née Leneghan; Irish: Máire Pádraigín Mhic Ghiolla Íosa; born 27 June 1951) is an Irish politician who served as the eighth President of Ireland from November 1997 to November 2011. She is an award-winning Catholic academic and author and holds a licentiate and doctorate in Canon law. She was the second female president of Ireland. McAleese was first elected in 1997, succeeding Mary Robinson, making her the first woman in the world to succeed another woman as president. She was reelected unopposed for a second term in office in 2004. On both occasions she was elected as an independent, although she was previously a member of Fianna Fáil. McAleese is the first president of Ireland to have come from either Northern Ireland or Ulster.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Mary McAleese Dating?

According to our records, Mary McAleese married to Martin McAleese. As of December 1, 2023, Mary McAleese’s is not dating anyone.

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During the same decade she was legal advisor to and a founding member of the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform. She left this position in 1979, to join RTÉ as a journalist and presenter, during one period as a reporter and presenter for their Today Tonight programme. However, in RTÉ, she and Alex White (then a TV producer and later a Labour Party TD) were attacked and criticised by a group led by Eoghan Harris, associated with the Workers’ Party, over what they perceived as her bias towards republican groups in the North. McAleese was critical of the Provisional IRA, but believed it was important to hear their side of the story; she opposed the Harris faction’s support for Section 31, which she believed was an attack on free speech. In 1981, she returned to the Reid Professorship, but continued to work part-time for RTÉ for a further four years. In 1987, she returned to Queen’s University, to become Director of the Institute of Professional Legal Studies. She stood, unsuccessfully, as a Fianna Fáil candidate in the Dublin South-East constituency at the 1987 general election, receiving 2,243 votes (5.9%).

Facts & Trivia

Mary Ranked on the list of most popular World Leader. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ireland. Mary McAleese celebrates birthday on June 27 of every year.

She also incurred some criticism from some of the Irish Catholic hierarchy by taking communion in an Anglican (Church of Ireland) Cathedral, in Dublin, on 7 December 1997, although 78 percent of Irish people approved of her action in a following opinion poll. While Cardinal Desmond Connell called her action a “sham” and a “deception”, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said it was ironic that “the Church was condemning an act of reconciliation and bridge-building between the denominations.”

What does Mary McAleese do now?

On 1 October 2018, McAleese was appointed Professor of Children, Law and Religion at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, a joint appointment between the university’s College of Arts and College of Social Sciences. On 1 November 2019, McAleese was elected as Chancellor of Trinity College Dublin.

Who is Mary McAleese husband?

Martin McAleese

What age is Mary McAleese?

70 years (June 27, 1951)

Who are Mary Mcaleese children?

Children

What age is Deborah mcaleese?

Belfast Telegraph news editor Jonathan (38) and crime correspondent Deborah ( 36 ) are enjoying every moment of being parents to the beautiful baby boy, who weighed 7lbs 9oz when he was born at the Ulster Hospital on May 25 at 2.10pm. “The wee rascal waited for the sunny weather,” Jonathan said.