Malachy McCourt

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Malachy McCourt (born September 30, 1931 in Brooklyn, New York) is the 2006 Green party candidate for governor in New York State, losing to the Democratic candidate Eliot Spitzer. He is the younger brother of Frank McCourt (who wrote Angela's Ashes, and 'Tis.)

He was raised in Limerick, Ireland. He returned to the United States in 1952. He has four children: Siobhan, Malachy Jr., Conor (a NYC police officer and documentary maker), and Cormac, the latter two by his second wife Diana. He also has a stepdaughter, Nina, the daughter of his second wife.

He has acted on stage, on television and in several movies, including The Molly Maguires. He has appeared on three New York City-based soap operas: Ryan's Hope, Search for Tomorrow, and One Life to Live.

In the 1970s he had a talk show on WMCA radio.

Malachy McCourt also wrote two memoirs titled A Monk Swimming and Singing my Him Song, detailing his life in Ireland and later return to the United States where despite limited education he operated a successful Manhattan tavern frequented by entertainment celebrities. He also authored a book on the history of the much loved Irish ballad Danny Boy.

In recent years he has occasionally appeared on various programs on New York City's political radio station, WBAI. Among the shows on which he has appeared has been Radio Free Éireann. [1] He also had a short lived role on the critically acclaimed HBO prison drama OZ.

On Tuesday, 18 April 2006, McCourt announced that he would seek to become governor of New York in the November 2006 election as a Green Party candidate. Running under the slogan "Don't waste your vote, give it to me", McCourt promised to recall the New York National Guard from Iraq, to make public education free through college, and to institute a statewide comprehensive "sickness care" system. McCourt polled at 5% in an October 10th Zogby poll, versus 25% for Republican John Faso and 63% for Democrat Eliot Spitzer. [1] McCourt was endorsed by Cindy Sheehan, mother of a fallen soldier in the Iraq War.[2] [3] The League of Women Voters excluded him from candidate debates. [4]

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  1. ^ Zogby Poll: Dems on Top in Major New York Races (HTML). Zogby International (10-10-2006). Retrieved on 01-11-2006.
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