Galway Bay fm newsroom – President Michael D Higgins’ daughter Alice-Mary Higgins is to contest the Seanad elections.
The Galway city native is to take unpaid leave from her position as Policy Coordinator with the National Women’s Council of Ireland to run as an independent civil society candidate for the NUI panel.
40 year old Alice Mary Higgins will be formally launching her website and manifesto next week.
In a statement issued to Galway Bay fm news, she points out that no woman has been elected to the NUI panel since Gemma Hussey in 1981.
However she states that her platform will be wider than gender alone and other issues will include equality budgeting, the attachment of social and environmental clauses to public procurement, cultural participation and community development.
Alice Mary Higgins has held several advocacy roles including with Older and Bolder Alliance, Trocaire and Comhlámh Anti Racism Project.
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