Roger Garland
Roger Garland was the Irish Green Party's first candidate to be elected to Dail Eireann in 1989.He represented Dublin South until 1992. In the 2002 general elections Green Party politican Eamon Ryan was elected to represent that same constituency .One of his Dail advisors was Patricia McKenna who later became Irelands First Green MEP from 1994 to 2004. He is not only known for being the first Irish Green Party TD but also for campaigning against the Single European Act.
The success of Roger Garland was built on with the election of 13 councillors in the June 1991 Local Elections. On Dublin Corporation the Greens formed a governing coalition, the Civic Alliance, to run the capital city.
He is currently chairman of the Keep Ireland Open Group (KIO). This is a voluntary body made up of a large number of groups interested in the outdoors and the environment including the The Irish Ramblers, An Oige, all of the Scout and Guide Associations, the United Farmers Association, Irish Wildlife Trust, Association of Irish Riding Clubs, Federation of Local History Society and numerous walking groups as well as others. Their aims are to achieve a network of well-marked, maintained rights-of-way in lowland areas to allow short walks and to reach open ground and to gain freedom to roam over rough grazing land, that is about 7 percent of the total land as well as minimising barbed-wire fencing in mountain areas, as it is visually intrusive and severely hinders walkers.
He is also a current member of the envoirnmental board of An Taisce the National Trust For Ireland, its most influential envoirnmental body.
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