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Bríd Rodgers Image Name: Bríd Rodgers Description: Bríd Rodgers 1985 Copyright: RTÉ Archives

Seo sraith cláracha faisnéise le polaiteoirí aitheanta nach bhfuil gníomhach sa pholaitíocht níos mó.  Inniu, beidh Bríd Rodgers faoi agallamh ag Séamus Mac Donnchadha. Rugadh Bríd i nGaoth Dobhair, ach d’athraigh sí go dtí Na Sé Chontae i 1960, áit a raibh sí an-ghníomhach i nGluaiseacht na gCearta Sibhialta.  Bhí sí ar dhuine de bhunaitheoirí an SDLP, ceapadh í ina cathaoirleach ar an bpairtí i 1978 agus ina hard rúnaí i 1981.  Chaith sí ceithre bliana i Seanad Éireann, ó 1983 go 1987.  Idir 1998 agus 2003 bhí sí ina Comhalta Tionóil do thoghcheantar na Banna Uachtair.  Ceapadh í ina céad Aire Talmhaíochta sa bhFeidhmeannas i 1999.  Insíonn sí scéal a saol polaitiúil do Shéamus Mac Donnchadha inniu.

This is a new summer series, featuring interviews with well-known politicians who are no longer active in public life.  Today, Séamus Mac Donnchadha interviews Bríd Rodgers.  Bríd was born in Gaoth Dobhair, and moved to the Six Counties in 1960, where she was very involved in the Civil Rights Movement.  She was one of the founders of the SDLP, and spent time as party Chairperson and General Secretary.  She spent four years in the Seanad from 1983 to 1987.  From 1998 to 2003, she was MLA for Upper Bann, and she was appointed as the first Minister for Agriculture in the Executive in 1999.  She tells the story of her political life to Séamus Mac Donnchadha in the show today.