Gerry Breen
{{Short description|Irish politician (born 1957)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}}
{{Use Hiberno-English|date=July 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Gerry Breen Dublin Literary Award June 2011.png
| caption = Breen in 2011
| office = Dublin City Councillor
| term_start = June 1999
| constituency = Clontarf
| term_end = May 2014
| office2 = Lord Mayor of Dublin
| term_start2 = June 2010
| term_end2 = June 2011
| predecessor2 = Emer Costello
| successor2 = Andrew Montague
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|10|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = Fine Gael
| alma_mater = University College Dublin
}}
Gerry Breen (born 20 October 1957) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician and Lord Mayor of Dublin.{{cite news |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0629/1224273556952.html |title=FG councillor is Dublin's Lord Mayor |work=The Irish Times |date=29 June 2010 |access-date=23 May 2011 |archive-date=23 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023232448/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0629/1224273556952.html |url-status=live }}
Born in Clontarf in Dublin, educated at Coláiste Mhuire and University College Dublin (B Comm), Breen first entered politics in 1981 when he joined Fine Gael. At the 1999 local elections, he was elected to Dublin City Council representing the five seat Clontarf local electoral area. He served as Fine Gael group leader on the council from 2004 until 2010.{{fact|date=February 2022}}
Elected as Lord Mayor of Dublin in June 2010,{{cite web|url=https://www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/2020-09/lord-mayors-of-dublin-1665-2021.pdf|title=Lord Mayors of Dublin 1665–2020 |work=Dublin City Council|date=June 2020|access-date=18 November 2023}} he campaigned to have a greater distribution of drug maintenance treatment out of Dublin city centre and into the suburbs and also called for anti-begging laws to be introduced.{{cite web |url=http://www.dublinpeople.com/content/view/3769/57/ |title=Mayor in spat with minister over drug comments |work=Dublin People |date=30 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009212918/http://www.dublinpeople.com/content/view/3769/57/ |archive-date=9 October 2010 }}
He ran at the 2011 general election for the Dublin North-West constituency, despite not being a resident in the constituency obtained 2,988 votes (9.1%). He was not elected, being beaten for the last seat by Labour Party candidate John Lyons by 2,000 votes.{{ElectionsIreland|name=Gerry Breen|id=209|access-date=23 May 2011}}
He was a member of the European Committee of the Regions, and a rapporteur on the European Globalisation Fund for the period 2010 to 2014.
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Category:Alumni of University College Dublin
Category:Fine Gael local councillors
Category:Lord mayors of Dublin
Category:People educated at Coláiste Mhuire, Dublin