Richard Boyd Barrett
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Richard Boyd Barrett TD |
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| Teachta Dála | |
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Assumed office February 2011 |
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| Constituency | Dún Laoghaire |
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6 February 1967 Dublin, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | AAA-PBP |
| Education | St Michael's College |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin |
| Website | www |
Richard Boyd Barrett (born 1967) is an Irish politician who has been a TD for Dún Laoghaire since 2011, currently for the Anti-Austerity Alliance–People Before Profit.
He is a former member of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council. He is chair of the Irish Anti-War Movement and on multiple occasions has been cited on war issues in the Irish media. He opposed the Iraq War and helped organise protests against it in 2003, amid concerns that the war would lead to thousands of unnecessary deaths. Domestically, he has campaigned to reverse job losses, supported the Rossport Five and voiced opposition to Ireland's bank-bail outs and the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) among other issues.
Richard Boyd Barrett was adopted as a baby. His birth mother is Sinéad Cusack, with whom he was later reunited. This was revealed in the last week of his unsuccessful 2007 Dáil election campaign, during which Cusack, a vocal opponent of the Iraq War, canvassed for him. In May 2013, he claimed that theatre director Vincent Dowling was his biological father.
He was raised Catholic in Glenageary by his adoptive parents, David Boyd Barrett, an accountant, and his wife, Valerie. He attended St Michael's College in Dublin. He holds a master's degree in English Literature from University College Dublin.
Boyd Barrett contested the 2004 local elections for Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council. He was not elected and received 1,439 votes (7.4% of the poll). In 2009 he was elected to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, winning 22.8% of the vote and topping the poll.
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