Trevor Sargent
| Trevor Sargent | |
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| Minister of State for Food and Horticulture | |
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In office 20 June 2007 – 23 February 2010 |
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| Taoiseach |
Bertie Ahern Brian Cowen |
| Preceded by | Brendan Smith |
| Succeeded by | Ciarán Cuffe |
| Leader of the Green Party | |
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In office 6 October 2001 – 17 July 2007 |
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| Preceded by | position established |
| Succeeded by | John Gormley |
| Teachta Dála | |
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In office November 1992 – February 2011 |
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| Constituency | Dublin North |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 July 1960 |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Green Party |
| Spouse(s) | Aine Neville (m. 2014) Heidi Bedell (m. 1998 div. 2013) |
| Residence | Tacumshin, Wexford, Ireland |
| Occupation | Author & Illustrator |
| Religion | Church of Ireland |
| Website | www |
Trevor Sargent (born 26 July 1960) is a former Irish Green Party politician. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North constituency from 1992 to 2011. He was leader of the Green Party from 2001 to 2007.
Sargent trained as a primary school teacher in the Church of Ireland College of Education. In 1981, he started teaching in the Model School Dunmanway West Cork. In 1983, he was appointed Principal of St. George's National School in Balbriggan, County Dublin, which was his home for 30 years. He is a fluent Irish speaker and has made many appearances on the Irish-language TV channel TG4. He was a guest judge on TG4's Feirm Factor and a guest gardener for Season 2 of Garrai Glas in 2011. He also made an appearance on The Podge and Rodge Show on 10 April 2006. He is the current chairman of the Board of Sonairte, The National Ecology Centre, in Laytown, County Meath, which he helped found in 1987. He is active in GIY Ireland. In 1998, he married Heidi Bedell, former councillor and co-ordinator of the Green Party. They later divorced in 2013. Sargent lives with his wife, Aine Neville, in Tacumshin, County Wexford, where they are developing an organic horticulture enterprise. They are also members of the Wexford Naturalists' field club.
A committed environmentalist since the early 1980s, Trevor Sargent first became politically active when he joined the Green Party in 1982. However, it was not until 1989 that the Green Party made an impact on national politics, winning its first seat in Dáil Éireann through Roger Garland. In that same year Sargent stood for election to the European Parliament, but was unsuccessful. Two years later in 1991, he was elected to Dublin County Council.
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