Richard Boyd Barrett

Richard Boyd Barrett (* November 1968 ) is an Irish politician ( People Before Profit Alliance) and since 2011 deputy in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish Parliament.

Life

Barrett grew up in Dun Laoghaire. He studied English literature at University College Dublin. In June 2009 he was elected to the Dunlaoghaire / Rathdown County Council and this was up to his election to the Dáil Éireann.

For several years, Boyd Barrett is active in the anti -war movement in Ireland and campaigned among other things, against the use of Shannon Airport by the U.S. military.

Private

As a baby, he was given up for adoption and came to David and Valerie Boyd Barrett.

During the election campaign in 2007 it was announced that his mother was the actress Sinéad Cusack, with whom he is in contact since then and of which he was assisted in his campaign. Boyd Barrett has made ​​the marriage of his mother with the actor Jeremy Irons, the half-brothers Sam and Max