Why Is Mary Robinson A President
Mary Robison, the Irish President
On the third of December nineteen-ninety, Mary Robinson was initiated as President. She was a very popular President as she earned admiration from Brian Lenihan, who said that she was a better President than he ever may well have been. (Robinson, 2014)
She took the President’s office from being more than the status of being a retirement position from politicians. Mary carried a new lease of life to the President’s office in Ireland.
The Presidency was brought, legal knowledge, political experience and deep intellect through Mary Robinson. (O'Sullivan, 1991)
During her time as President she touched huge amounts of Irish emigrants, she welcomed visits to Ireland such as the Prince of Wales, to Aras an Uachtaran. …show more content…
She visited Irish Priests and nuns abroad quite often. She was the first President to host a greeting for the Christian Brothers. She was granted an audience with Pope John II, when working on a trip to Rome. On her visit, she was supposed to have broken the dress code of the Vatican as she wore a very controversial clothing according to Priest, Fr. David O’Hanlon. (Mulgueen, 2013)
As one of the roles she had as President, the signing of Bills into law passed by the Oireachtas, she was termed upon to sign two very important Bills that she had struggled for throughout her whole political career. One was a Bill to fully open the law on the availability of contraceptives and two, a Bill fully legalising homosexuality, and which unlike legislation in much of the world at the time, provided an age of consent which was fully legal, and treating heterosexuals and homosexuals alike.
Mary Robinson was very popular as a President. She requested groups such as the Christian Brothers, large religious groups who ran schools around Ireland who were not normally invited to the Presidential Residence. (O'Sullivan, 1991)
She went to visit the Irish famine relief charities, visited priests and nuns abroad, met the Pope, attended international sporting events, and she was the only head of state to meet the Dalai Lama during his European
On the third of December nineteen-ninety, Mary Robinson was initiated as President. She was a very popular President as she earned admiration from Brian Lenihan, who said that she was a better President than he ever may well have been. (Robinson, 2014)
She took the President’s office from being more than the status of being a retirement position from politicians. Mary carried a new lease of life to the President’s office in Ireland.
The Presidency was brought, legal knowledge, political experience and deep intellect through Mary Robinson. (O'Sullivan, 1991)
During her time as President she touched huge amounts of Irish emigrants, she welcomed visits to Ireland such as the Prince of Wales, to Aras an Uachtaran. …show more content…
She visited Irish Priests and nuns abroad quite often. She was the first President to host a greeting for the Christian Brothers. She was granted an audience with Pope John II, when working on a trip to Rome. On her visit, she was supposed to have broken the dress code of the Vatican as she wore a very controversial clothing according to Priest, Fr. David O’Hanlon. (Mulgueen, 2013)
As one of the roles she had as President, the signing of Bills into law passed by the Oireachtas, she was termed upon to sign two very important Bills that she had struggled for throughout her whole political career. One was a Bill to fully open the law on the availability of contraceptives and two, a Bill fully legalising homosexuality, and which unlike legislation in much of the world at the time, provided an age of consent which was fully legal, and treating heterosexuals and homosexuals alike.
Mary Robinson was very popular as a President. She requested groups such as the Christian Brothers, large religious groups who ran schools around Ireland who were not normally invited to the Presidential Residence. (O'Sullivan, 1991)
She went to visit the Irish famine relief charities, visited priests and nuns abroad, met the Pope, attended international sporting events, and she was the only head of state to meet the Dalai Lama during his European