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Founder of the Irish Green Party
A.K.A.
Kristoforo FETTES
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Male
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Birth:
1937(Bromley, London Borough of Bromley, Greater London, United Kingdom)
Education:
Trinity College, Dublin
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Clayesmore School
Blandford Forum, Dorset, United Kingdom
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Biography
Introduction
Christopher Fettes (born 1937 in England) is the founder of the Irish Green Party.
Biography
Christopher Fettes was born in Bromley, Kent, England and educated at Clayesmore School, Dorset, and in English and French at Trinity College Dublin.
In 1981, he initiated and chaired the founding meeting of the Ecology Party of Ireland, which later became the Irish Green Party. He stood unsuccessfully as a Green candidate for the European Parliament in 1984. He contested the 2002 general election and the 2011 general election in the Laois–Offaly constituency.