About Mary Robinson
Mary Therese Winifred Robinson is an Irish politician who served as Ireland’s first female president from December 1990 to September 1997. Before that she was a senator in Seanad Éireann from 1969 to 1989 and a Dublin councillor from 1979 to 1983. She briefly joined the Labour Party as a senator, then won the presidency as an independent candidate, the first not to have Fianna Fáil support. After leaving office she became the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, serving from 1997 to 2002.
