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3 unusual facts about Rita Childers


Margaret Dudley

Rita Childers (1915–2010), second wife of Erskine Hamilton Childers, fourth President of Ireland

Rita Childers

Rita and Erskine Childers' daughter, Nessa, entered politics in 2004 when she was elected as a councillor on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the Green Party.

However, a political dispute in which a partially deaf Fine Gael minister in the National Coalition government, Tom O'Donnell, misheard a journalist's question about Mrs Childers and confirmed that she would be the next president led the plan to collapse.



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