Ms Quill died at Marymount University Hospital and Hospice in Cork on Thursday.<\/p>\n
She is survived by her nephews, grandnephew and grandniece.<\/p>\n
Her Requiem Mass will take place at St Patrick’s Church on the Lower Glanmire Road, Cork at 10am on Saturday.<\/p>\n
She will be buried at St Garvan’s Cemetery in Kilgarvan, Co Kerry.<\/p>\n
Ms Quill – a native of Kilgarvan, Co Kerry – was initially involved in Fianna F\u00e1il but was best known as one of the longest serving Progressive Democrat TDs.<\/p>\n
Ms Quill joined Des O\u2019Malley and Mary Harney in setting up the Progressive Democrats in 1985. She was a party candidate in Cork North Central in the 1987 General election and was one of 14 PD\u2019s who were elected to the 25th D\u00e1il.<\/p>\n
She served as a TD for Cork North Central from 1987 to 1997, winning election on three occasions (1987, 1989 and 1992).<\/p>\n
Ms Quill then served in the Seanad from 1997 to 2002 before opting not to contest the 2002 General Election.<\/p>\n
A school teacher, one of her best known political anecdotes was being sent home during the count for one general election after being told she was going to lose her seat.<\/p>\n
However she was called back to the count centre after a dramatic swing in transfers resulted in her successfully holding her seat.<\/p>\n
Ms Quill was a member of Cork Corporation (now City Council) for 30 years from 1979 to 2009.<\/p>\n
Despite the pleas of many independent Cork politicians, she never got to serve as Lord Mayor of Cork as the PDs were not part of the Fianna F\u00e1il-FineGael-Labour mayoral pact.<\/p>\n
Her longtime PD colleague Pearse Wyse did serve as Lord Mayor when he was previously a member of FF.<\/p>\n
The Taoiseach hailed Ms Quill for her contribution to Cork and Irish life.<\/p>\n
“I was deeply, deeply saddened to learn of the passing of M\u00e1ir\u00edn Quill, someone who served the people of Cork with great distinction as a city councillor, senator and a deputy in D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann,” Mr Martin.<\/p>\n
“Erudite and impactful, M\u00e1ir\u00edn championed the arts and culture in the city of Cork. I served on many boards with her, but I particularly enjoyed our time together on the arts committee of Cork Corporation.<\/p>\n
“M\u00e1ir\u00edn was a true renaissance figure with a great sense of the future of our city. She was always very helpful in providing advice and creative ideas.<\/p>\n
“She was a true patriot and it was an honour to be her friend and colleague. My deepest sympathies go to all her family and friends. Ar dheis D\u00e9 go raibh a hanam.”<\/p>\n
Tributes have also been paid by Cork City Council, business groups, art associations and particularly education groups across Ireland.<\/p>\n
Ms Quill initially qualified as a primary school teacher having attended Mary Immaculate College in Limerick.<\/p>\n
However, she secured a degree in English and History from University College Cork (UCC) and went on to teach at St Vincent’s secondary school in Cork.<\/p>\n
Years after her retirement, she proudly attended school events as well as educational campaigns around Cork. <\/p>\n
During her long career, she became particularly close to PD leaders Des O\u2019Malley and Mary Harney. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Quill died at Marymount University Hospital and Hospice in Cork on Thursday. She is survived by her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-199512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}