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23/03/2009
Tributes To SF Councillor
Tributes have been paid to a long serving Belfast councillor, who died at the weekend.
Sinn Fein member Marie Moore passed away at the Royal Victoria Hospital on Saturday, having been ill for some time. She was 72-years-old.
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams led the tributes to Ms Moore, who was the republican party's first councillor to hold high office in the city.
Mr Adams said the mother of three, who was installed as deputy lord mayor in 1999, "was an outstanding Irish woman and a very sound republican".
"She remained very staunch in good times and bad," he said.
"She was very supportive of me and I will miss her slagging and her craic as well as her activism."
Born in the Clonard area of Belfast, Ms Moore came to prominence when a known IRA man was arrested in her Cawnpore Street home.
Tom Williams was later convicted and hanged for the murder of a police officer in 1942.
Ms Moore later became a figure within the civil rights movement and went on to organise the first local Sinn Fein groups (cumann) in Belfast, in Clonard.
Her work with women and republican prisoners was recognised by Mr Adams, who appointed her as a secretary on becoming the MP for west Belfast.
She also served four terms on Belfast City Council, beginning in 1993.
(PR/JM)
Sinn Fein member Marie Moore passed away at the Royal Victoria Hospital on Saturday, having been ill for some time. She was 72-years-old.
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams led the tributes to Ms Moore, who was the republican party's first councillor to hold high office in the city.
Mr Adams said the mother of three, who was installed as deputy lord mayor in 1999, "was an outstanding Irish woman and a very sound republican".
"She remained very staunch in good times and bad," he said.
"She was very supportive of me and I will miss her slagging and her craic as well as her activism."
Born in the Clonard area of Belfast, Ms Moore came to prominence when a known IRA man was arrested in her Cawnpore Street home.
Tom Williams was later convicted and hanged for the murder of a police officer in 1942.
Ms Moore later became a figure within the civil rights movement and went on to organise the first local Sinn Fein groups (cumann) in Belfast, in Clonard.
Her work with women and republican prisoners was recognised by Mr Adams, who appointed her as a secretary on becoming the MP for west Belfast.
She also served four terms on Belfast City Council, beginning in 1993.
(PR/JM)
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