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Thread: Cross Party Families

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    Quote Originally Posted by FutureTaoiseach
    Jim Higgins MEP (FG) and John Higgins (PD Chairman)
    Garrett Fitzgerald (FG) and Eithne Fitzgerald (Labour) (I think they are related but unsure)
    Jim McDaid (FF) and Garrett McDaid (Green)
    Erskine Childers (FF) and daughter Nessa Childers (Green)
    George Colley (FF) and daughter Anne Colley (PD)
    Garret FitzGerald (one t in Garret, capital G in FitzGerald, by the way) is Eithne's father-in-law. She is married to his son, John, of ESRI fame.

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    Frank Aiken was a FF minister, as was Jim Gibbons. Both had sons who contested elections for the PDs.
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    Sisters Nora Owen and Mary Banotti (both Fine Gael) are grand-nieces of Michael Collins (Who I suppose was Sinn Fein)
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