Who was the first female President of Ireland?
Q: Who was the first female President of Ireland?
A: Mary Robinson was the first female President of Ireland, serving from 1990 to 1997.
Q: How did Mary Robinson become president?
A: Mary Robinson defeated Fianna Fáil's Brian Lenihan and Fine Gael's Austin Currie in the 1990 presidential election, the first time Fianna Fáil had lost a presidential election.
Q: What happened after her term as president ended?
A: After her term as president ended, she resigned four months ahead of schedule to begin a five-year term in the United Nations as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Q: What did she do in 2002?
A: In 2002 Robinson became Honorary President of Oxfam International.
Q: What is the Yogyakarta Principles?
A: The Yogyakarta Principles are an international set of principles relating to human rights that were adopted by the International Commission on Jurists in 2006. Mary Robinson signed them when they were adopted.
Q: What was Mary Robinson involved with in 2018?
A: In 2018, Mary Robinson became embroiled in controversy surrounding "The Missing Princess" (Latifa), who is imprisoned daughter of Sheikh Maktoum, ruler of Dubai. She attended a lunch hosted by Latifa's stepmother, Princess Haya and appeared in staged photographs with Princess Latifa claiming that Latifa was being cared for by her loving family.
Q: What did she say about this situation more recently?
A: In February 2021, Mary Robinson retracted her former statement about this situation during a BBC Panorama broadcast claiming that herself and Haya had both been misled and had been spun convincing and elaborate lies about Princess Latifa's alleged medical 'bipolar' history and condition.
