Deirdre de Burca
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Deirdre de Burca is an Irish politician for the Green Party. She is an elected member of Wicklow County Council and Bray Town Council for the Irish Green Party. She was first elected in 1999 for the Bray district, and was returned with an increased vote in 2004, when she was also elected to the Town Council. She was born in Co. Dublin, and is one of the most high-profile members of the Green Party in Ireland.
De Burca challenged Patricia McKenna for the Green nomination to run in the European elections 2004 in the Dublin constituency. This was considered unusual by political outsiders, as McKenna was a sitting MEP, and De Burca's base in Wicklow is not part of the Dublin constituency. McKenna won the nomination.
De Burca caused outrage at a meeting of Wicklow county council when she was found to be recording a meeting. She claimed the meetings were being held in an undemocratic fashion, and councillors were not sufficiently accountable, particularly in relation to planing and rezoning decisions. The incident garnered her much publicity and widespread approval. (See RTE site referenced below.)
She was the Green Party candidate at the 2002 general election in the Wicklow constituency, receiving 6% of the poll, and is also the candidate for the 2007 election.
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