1. Maurice Hayes was an Irish public servant and, late in life, an independent member of the 21st and 22nd Seanads.
20 Facts About Maurice Hayes
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Maurice Hayes served, at the Taoiseach's request, as Chairman of the National Forum on Europe in the Republic of Ireland.
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Maurice Hayes was voted European Person of the Year in 2003.
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Maurice Hayes was born in Killough County Down, Northern Ireland, in 1927.
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Maurice Hayes left teaching to become town clerk of Downpatrick the then administrative centre of County Down, succeeding his father in the role.
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Maurice Hayes wrote or contributed to major policy reports, such as the Patten Commission dealing with reforms to the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the police force later renamed the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
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Maurice Hayes wrote numerous pieces of journalism, notably, and regularly, for the Irish Independent.
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Maurice Hayes was the author of three books of memoirs, Sweet Killough: Let Go Your Anchor; Black Puddings with Slim: A Downpatrick Boyhood; and Minority Verdict: Experiences Of A Catholic Civil Servant, as well as author or editor of works on conflict research, community relations and Irish writing.
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Maurice Hayes was a former Northern Ireland Ombudsman and Boundary Commissioner, and was Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services.
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Maurice Hayes was a former chairman of the Community Relations Council and the Acute Hospitals Review Group.
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Maurice Hayes was chairman of The Ireland Funds in the Republic of Ireland, a branch of a major charitable group with worldwide contributors, which has made significant grants to groups dealing with social and business problems.
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Maurice Hayes was nominated by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, in 1997 and re-nominated in 2002.
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Maurice Hayes served, at the Taoiseach's request, as Chairman of the National Forum on Europe in the Republic of Ireland.
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In later life, Maurice Hayes was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and the Research Ethical Committee of Queen's University Belfast medical school, and a governor of the Linenhall Library, Belfast.
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Maurice Hayes was a long-serving member of the Scholarship Board of the O'Reilly Foundation.
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Maurice Hayes was asked by Mary Harney, when she was the Minister for Health in the Republic of Ireland, and the HSE to conduct a review into a scandal in the radiology department at Tallaght Hospital on the outskirts of Dublin.
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Maurice Hayes was a county hurler, who in the mid-1950s became County Secretary of the Down Gaelic Athletic Association and set a ten-year plan for the county football team to become the first from Northern Ireland to win an All-Ireland football final.
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Maurice Hayes died in Downe Hospital after a long illness on 23 December 2017 at the age of 90.
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Maurice Hayes was voted European Person of the Year in 2003.
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Maurice Hayes received honorary doctorates from his alma mater; from both Queen's University Belfast and University of Ulster in the UK, as well as Trinity College, University of Dublin and National University of Ireland in the Republic of Ireland.