The remains of Tomas Mac Giolla will be brought to Ballyfermot Civic Centre, Ballyfermot Road, Dublin, today for the public to pay their respects to the former president of the Workers’ Party.
The Civic Centre will remain open from 2pm until 9pm today and will be open tomorrow, Sunday, from 10.30am until 5pm
Mr Mac Giolla was a Workers’ Party TD for the Dublin West constituency from 1982 to 1992 and served as Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1993-94. He was originally elected to Dublin Corporation, as it was then known, in 1979 and remained a member until 1998.
Born into a farming family at Nenagh, Co Tipperary on January 25th, 1924, he was a nephew of the Irish Parliamentary Party MP, TP Gill.
He was educated at St Flannan’s College, Ennis, Co Clare where he changed his name from Thomas Gill to the Irish version.
The funeral will take place on Monday following after a secular ceremony at the Civic Centre at 12 noon.
Tomas Mac Giolla’s remains will then be brought to Palmerstown Cemetery, County Dublin, for burial.