Annie Ryan

Annie Ryan is a retired schoolteacher who is best known for her work championing the rights of people with mental handicap and mental health problems. Her campaigning in relation to the state mental hospital in Portrane gained her national prominence, and she ran in the 1997 general election as an toon meer independent candidate on a mental-health platform. Annie's father, Tom Harris, took part in the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence and was one of the witnesses interviewed in the 1940s. toon minder