Máirín Quill (born 15 September 1936) is a former Irish politician who served as a

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from 1997 to 2002, after being

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. She served as a

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(TD) for the Cork North-Central constituency from 1987 to 1997. A schoolteacher, Quill qualified as a primary school teacher from

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; she followed her teaching diploma by studying by night at

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for a degree in English and History, and then a Higher Diploma in Education. She was first elected to

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for the Cork North-Central constituency at the 1987 general election. She was one of 14 Progressive Democrat TDs resulting from that party's first general election. She had previously contested the

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constituency at the 1977 general election and Cork North-Central at the 1981 general election, each time as a

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candidate and each time losing. Quill retained her seat in two successive general elections, but lost it at the 1997 general election to

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of Fianna Fáil. She was then

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, to the 21st Seanad. She did not contest the 2002 general election. From 1979 until 2009, she was a member of

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, representing the North East ward. She did not contest the 2009 local elections.

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