File 1 - Campaign Trail (General) including Labour party nomination

201 pp

Material relating to Mary Robinson (MR)'s campaign to be elected as President of Ireland including press statement from Dick Spring, Leader of the Labour Party, announcing he had been given permission to formally invite MR to accept a nomination to contest the Presidential Election (04/04/1990), copy of MR's CV, meeting minutes and other documents relating to the Media Committee, documents relating to strategy including from Eoghan Harris; note from Fergus [Finlay] to MR on proposed campaign structure, with sample list of names, technical note on how a president is elected and note from Ray Kavanagh, General Secretary on candidate exposure, 08-11/05/1990 notes for the campaign submitted by Nick Robinson, Bride Rosney and Peter MacMenamin, and from Catherine Donnelly [PR firm], 06/06/1990; draft letter from Dick Spring, Chairperson Council of Public Representatives in support of MR's Campaign for Presidency to potential members, 10/07/1990; letter from Eoghan Harris to MR and NR about the "gang of four" "blackmailing" Robinsons to remove him from campaign committee, 17/09/1990; breakdowns of constituencies and contact details for local Oireachtas members and directors of elections in each, recommended security guidelines relating to security of MR's home and campaign office on Merrion square during presidential campaign, 18/09/1990, printing costs and location sites for campaign posters, specimen ballot papers, and correspondence between Mary Robinson and various Presidents and Directors of Higher Education institutions, requesting that students who need to return home to vote, would not be penalised either in terms of their academic record, or their eligibility to receive grant funding (22-31/10/1990); document "A President worth campaigning for", by Dick Spring, TD, Labour Party Leader, [04/1990?]; list of potential slogans for the campaign.

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