Mary Patricia McAleese (Irish: Máire Pádraigín Bean Mhic Ghiolla Íosa; born 27 June 1951) is the eighth and current President of Ireland. She is Ireland's second female president and the world's first woman to succeed another woman as an elected head of state. She was first elected president in 1997 and won a second term, without a contest, in 2004. McAleese was born in Belfast, becoming the first President to come from Northern Ireland. Prior to becoming president she was a barrister, journalist and academic.
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