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Revision as of 02:07, November 19, 2007
Mary McAleese is the current President of Ireland. She was born in Belfast. McAleeseis a qualified lawyer and worked in the state broadcast company RTE in the 1980s. She was nominated to run for the presidency by Fianna Fail in 1997. During the campaign she was criticized heavily by Eoghan Harris because of her Northern Irish nationalist background. Harris said she would prove to be a "tribal time bomb".
She won the election and promised to "build bridges" with Northern Irish Unionists. Her efforts have been credited with helping to achieve peace in Northern Ireland.