Anne Brolly is an Irish

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and former Sinn Féin politician and councillor who served on Limavady Borough Council in Northern Ireland. She was the wife of MLA Francie Brolly, till he died in 2020, and together they formed a singing duo and write songs. Their son

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is a former footballer (now a TV sports pundit) who played for the Derry county team. In 2001, Brolly was elected as a councillor to Limavady Borough Council for the electoral area of Benbradagh. She topped the first preference votes with 1056, and her husband came in second with 917. He was also elected to the council. The quota was 840. In 2003, Brolly took over from George Robinson of the

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(DUP) as the Mayor of Limavady. At Christmas 2003 she was asked to switch on the Christmas tree lights for Burnfoot. There was a small Loyalist protest during the switching-on of the lights because of the election of a Sinn Féin mayor. Afterwards, the tree was cut down by vandals and the lights smashed. On 14 June 2004 Councillor Brolly stood down as Mayor. In October 2004, the High Court of Northern Ireland ordered the government to provide the Brolly couple with protection, following reports of threats from the Red Hand Defenders, a Loyalist paramilitary group. In 2005, she was re-elected to the council, but this time for the Limavady Town electoral area. She garnered 657 first preference votes, a total of 17.6% of the vote. She was the only Sinn Féin councillor elected in that area, coming third behind George Robinson and Alan Robinson both of the DUP. In January 2008, Brolly and another councillor were confronted by a crowd in an "extremely nasty mood" outside the council's offices. Police were called. In 2016, Brolly revealed that she left Sinn Féin over its support for abortion. In March 2018 she and her husband joined

, a new anti-abortion republican party founded by former Sinn Féin TD Peadar Tóibín.

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