Green Party Leader Trevor Sargent to Visit Wicklow

Green Party leader Trevor Sargent T.D. will visit Bray and Greystones next Tuesday, April 9th. as part of a whistle-stop tour of North county Wicklow in support of local Green Party candidate councillor Deirdre de Burca.

Green Party leader Trevor Sargent: Produced developer's cheque at a council meeting

A former national school principal, Deputy Sargent was elected to Dublin County Council in 1991 and provoked outrage among other councillors by exposing payments from developers to council members. After receiving a cheque for £100 from a developer, he produced it at a council meeting and asked if other councillors had recieved similar payments. In the resulting melee he was physically assaulted by other councillors.

He was elected to Dáil Éireann in 1992 and has since been an outspoken advocate of openness and transparency in national affairs and a hard-working and respected deputy. Trevor has fought hard to save designated open spaces from being rezoned for speculative development and he is a member of two Dáil Committees -Public Enterprise & Transport and Education & Science. He was elected as the Green Party's first leader last October.

According to a Green party spokesperson the upcoming election could see the greens taking as many as many as seven seats around the county. While Wicklow Green Party candidate Deirdre de Burca is regarded as having only an outside chance at taking a seat she is expected to substantially increase the Green vote in ther Garden County.

Disclosure: The writer is an active member of the Wicklow Green party