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‘She Was Our Hero’

https://twitter.com/johnconnors1990/status/1027107583012810752

Irish Traveller rights’ activist Nan Joyce, who was the first Traveller to run for a Dáil seat in November 1982, died last night.

She ran in Dublin South West and won 581 votes in 1982.

Pics: RTE Archives, Alan Kinsella, John Connors

Thanks Janine