Dick Roche

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Party: Fianna Fáil

Constituency: Wicklow

Date of Birth: 30/03/1947

Outgoing TD Dick Roche is one of two Fianna Fáil candidates on the party ticket in Wicklow. If re-elected, this will be a sixth term of office for Roche who has served as constituency's deputy from 1987 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011. Most recently, Roche topped the polls in Wicklow in both the 2002 and 2007 general elections. He was Minister for Environment, Heritage, and Local Government in Bertie Ahern's cabinet from September 2004 - June 2007.

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In 1978, Roche became the first Irishman to win a United Nations Human Rights Fellowship.

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Matt Staunton 330 days ago #
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Traitor
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Gerard Hyland 311 days ago #
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A TRAITOR. HE WILL NEVER WAG HIS FINGER AGAIN AT CITIZANS OFF THE STATE, LET HIM GO BACK TO BRUSSELS AND EAT HUMBLE PIE IN FRONT OF HIS BOSSES, WHAT A SLEEZY MAN HE IS, NOW WE THE VOTERS HAVE HAD OUR SAY AND DICK AND HIS CRONIES AND HIS ILK , THE SAME PEOPLE WHO SOLD OUT THE OFF SHORE ASSETS WE HAVE TO SHELL, THE SAME PEOPLE WHO SUCKED UP TO SHELL , THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WOULD NOT ACCEPT A NO VOTE TO NICE AND LISBON?? , WELL DICK THERE WILL BE NO U-TURN ON THIS VOTE, YOUR DAY IS WELL AND TRULY GONE,
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