Pauline Tully

Pauline Tully (formerly Pauline Tully-McAuley) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cavan–Monaghan constituency since the 2020 general election.[1] She was a member of Cavan County Council for the Ballyjamesduff local electoral area from the 1999 election until 2012.[2]

Pauline Tully
TD
Tully in 2017
Teachta Dála
Assumed office
February 2020
ConstituencyCavan–Monaghan
Personal details
BornCavan, Ireland
Political partySinn Féin
Children2

Early and personal life

Tully grew up on a farm in Kilnaleck, County Cavan, where she still lives.[3][4] She teaches history at Breifne College.[5]

In 2003 Tully married IRA member Pearse McAuley; at the time he was imprisoned for the killing of Jerry McCabe, and granted day release for the wedding.[6] Her name was Pauline Tully-McAuley on the 2004 and 2009 election ballot papers.[7] Her husband was released from prison in August 2009, and she resigned as councillor in 2012 due to the demands of her teaching job and childcare.[7] She and McAuley separated in February 2014 and on Christmas Eve 2014 he stabbed her 13 times in front of their two children, for which he was imprisoned until June 2022.[8]

References
  1. "Pauline Tully". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  2. "Pauline Tully TD". sinnfein.ie. Archived from the original on 9 February 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  3. "IRA man leaves jail to wed teacher". Irish Times. 5 January 2003. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  4. Lyons, Thomas (23 May 2018). "EXCLUSIVE: Tully returns to stand for Sinn Féin". The Anglo Celt. Archived from the original on 23 May 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  5. "Ex-wife of convicted garda killer to run for next Dáil". Irish Times. 24 May 2018. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  6. McLaughlin, Brian (10 January 2003). "O'Dea criticises wedding release of McCauley". The Irish Times. p. 2. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  7. Reilly, Jerome; McArdle, Patsy (8 April 2012). "McCauley's wife to resign from SF role". Irish Independent. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
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