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Andropov
16th January 2009, 21:45
Havent seen this posted here, a great warrior of the Irish Working Class.


Dublin TD Tony Gregory dies

Independent TD Tony Gregory has died at the age of 61.

The Dublin Central independent TD passed away today after a long illness.

Reacting to the news, Sinn Féin councillor Christy Burke said Dublin Central had lost a champion for those marginalised in our society.

'It's the people's loss. There will never be another Tony Gregory,' Mr Burke said.

Born on 5 December 1947, Mr Gregory was first elected to the Dáil in 1982. He was a member of Dublin City Council from 1979 until 2004.

Tony Gregory first came to national prominence when he negotiated a multi-million pound deal for the north inner city to ensure his support for the minority Fianna Fáil government in 1982.

He was first elected that year as an independent left wing TD although he had started out as a member of Official Sinn Féin and was later a founder member of the breakaway Irish Republican Socialist party.

But he often said he felt he could best represent his constituents as an independent rather than being strangled by party politics.

On his first day in the Dáil he caused comment when he turned up not wearing a tie, he explained many of his constituents could not afford ties.

Later in the 1980s he served time in Mountjoy prison along with Cllr Christy Burke in support of Moore St traders.

Originally from the North Strand area of the north city he worked for a time as a history teacher before entering politics.

He is survived by his brother Noel and partner Annette.

http://news.ie.msn.com/article.aspx?...entid=12419022 (http://news.ie.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=12419022)

pastradamus
18th April 2009, 19:55
I know this is an old post but I wanted to say something about Tony Gregory. The main character he had was courage at a time in the early eighties when it was very very dangerous to challenge Dublins main drug family the Dunnes I remember hearing about Tony standing up at a public meeting and pointing out Mickey Dunne in the crowd and telling him that the local people would no longer tolerate his dealing,Dunne denied dealing but the next day left the area for good this gave local people the courage to stand up to many other Pushers in the area,can you imagine any of our mainstream politicians having the liathróidi to do this.

pastradamus
19th April 2009, 11:31
Also does anyone know who'll be standing in for him during the by-election?

Andropov
19th April 2009, 11:42
I think the sticks may be running in his old constituency.

pastradamus
19th April 2009, 13:08
Just read up on this on RTE's news site.

Tony Gregory's election agent, Maureen O'Sullivan, has announced her intention to run in the by-election in the Dublin Central Constituency, following Mr Gregory's death in January.
Ms O'Sullivan said it was important to win the election on merit.
She had already announced her intention to run for a council seat and the Gregory Group has said if the local elections and the bye-election are held on the same day then they will decide on the council seat.


The Gregory Group has also asked Sinn Féin and the Labour Party to 'put their money where their mouth is' and support Maureen O'Sullivan as the only true centre-left candidate.

Related link: http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0302/osullivanm.html