Margaret Mary Murray (née O'Keeffe; 9 September 1961 – 13 June 2020) was an Irish

Fianna Fáil Fianna Fáil (, ; meaning 'Soldiers of Destiny' or 'Warriors of Fál'), officially Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party ( ga, audio=ga-Fianna Fáil.ogg, Fianna Fáil – An Páirtí Poblachtánach), is a conservative and Christian- ...

politician, a councillor on

Fingal County Council Fingal County Council ( ga, Comhairle Contae Fhine Gall) is the authority responsible for local government in the county of Fingal, Ireland. It is one of three local authorities that comprised the former Dublin County Council before its abolit ...

for the Castleknock Local Electoral Area and the mayor of Fingal County Council.

Biography

Born in Cregane, Charleville, County Cork, she played camogie with the local camogie team, Ballyagran. Murray won an All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship with her club in 1978, playing in the position of right wing forward. Upon moving to Dublin, Mags Murray joined St Brigids GAA Club as a camogie player and also as a mentor. Murray was first elected at the

2004 elections 4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest c ...

as a member of the Progressive Democrats. She was subsequently an unsuccessful candidate for the party in the

2007 Irish general election The 2007 Irish general election took place on Thursday, 24 May after the dissolution of the 29th Dáil by the President on 30 April, at the request of the Taoiseach. The general election took place in 43 parliamentary constituencies throughout ...

Dublin West Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 cens ...

. As the Progressive Democrats became defunct she joined Fianna Fáil in February 2008. Mags Murray was elected in the local elections in 2009, and retained her seat again in the 2014 local elections. In June 2014, Councillor Mags Murray was elected as the new Mayor of Fingal. A Fianna Fáil,

Fine Gael Fine Gael (, ; English: "Family (or Tribe) of the Irish") is a liberal-conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Ireland. Fine Gael is currently the third-largest party in the Republic of Ireland in terms of members of Dáil � ...

and

Labour Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour ...

Alliance, backed by a number of Independents, ensured the election of the Castleknock-based Councillor, who had been sitting on Fingal County Council for a decade. She defeated three other nominees, Sinn Féin's Paul Donnelly, Sandra Kavanagh from the Anti Austerity Alliance and Non-Party Councillor Lorna Nolan. Cllr Murray received 21 votes, with Cllr Donnelly getting 6, Cllr Nolan receiving 8, and Cllr Kavanagh getting 3. County Mayor Cllr Mags Murray hosted the 2015 Annual Mayors' Conference, entitled Immigration to Integration, which focused on the positive impact of immigration and challenges of integration on both the receiving communities and the immigrants. In February 2015, the Mayor of Fingal had described how a group of anti-water charge protesters blocked her exit from a council meeting for more than an hour, preventing her from getting to the hospital to see her sick daughter who was awaiting a liver transplant. Mags Murray said that she had to suffer verbal abuse as well as being blocked into the council's car park late on Monday night. Murray served as the first female president of LAMA (Local Authority Members Association) for five years, from 2014 – 2019. Noted from her LAMA colleagues “Mags was an excellent Councillor. She served on Fingal County Council for fifteen years, from 2004 – 2019. Mags lit up every room she entered. She was a hard worker, a caring politician and a loving mother.".

References

External links

Electoral historyLAMA website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Murray, Mags 1961 births 2020 deaths Fianna Fáil local councillors Members of Fingal County Council Place of birth missing Place of death missing Irish women in politics Progressive Democrats candidates in Dáil elections Progressive Democrats local councillors People from Charleville, County Cork Politicians from County Cork