Gerry Breen is an Irish former

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. Born in Clontarf in

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, educated in Coláiste Mhuire and UCD (B Comm), Breen first entered politics in 1981 when he joined Fine Gael. At the 1999 local elections, he was elected to

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representing the five seat Clontarf

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. He served as Fine Gael group leader on the council from 2004 until 2010. Elected as Lord Mayor of Dublin in June 2010, he campaigned to have a greater distribution of drug maintenance treatment out of Dublin city centre and into the suburbs and also called for anti-begging laws to be introduced. He ran at the 2011 general election for the Dublin North-West constituency, despite not being a resident in the constituency obtained 2,988 votes (9.1%). He was not elected, being beaten for the last seat by Labour Party candidate John Lyons by 2,000 votes. He was a member of the

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, and a rapporteur on the European Globalisation Fund for the period 2010 to 2014. In December 2011, he was elected as Chair of the Fine Gael Council of Local Representatives – a body representing the hundreds of Fine Gael councillors throughout the country. He runs a business "First Aid Supplies" based in Balbriggan since 2002. He lost his council seat at the 2014 local elections.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Breen, Gerry 1957 births Living people Alumni of University College Dublin Fine Gael politicians Lord Mayors of Dublin People educated at Coláiste Mhuire, Dublin People from Clontarf, Dublin