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Alice Glenn, who died aged 90 in December, was member of Fine Gael Party, and served two terms as a TD in Dáil Éireann. Throughout her political life she was an outspoken opponent of her party’s modernising tendencies, and often found herself in conflict with the late Dr Garret FitzGerald who as party leader advocated a liberal and pluralist Ireland.
 
Fine Gael MEP, Gay Mitchell, described Alice as “a formidable conservative campaigner”. Voicing her disillusionment, she claimed Dr FitzGerald had warned that anybody wishing to be “Gaelic and Catholic” would get no support from him. “My dilemma was how to remain on the national scene as an outspoken promoter of traditional and family values while being a member of a party which I felt was led by persons opposed to them.”
 
In 1983 she was one of eight Fine Gael TDs to defy the party whip and vote against the Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition's compromise amendment, in that way ensuring that the original pro-life amendment was put to the people and overwhelmingly passed in September 1983. She opposed the indiscriminate availability of contraceptives and campaigned against the introduction of divorce in 1986, famously warning women that voting for it would be similar to “turkeys voting for Christmas”.
 
Her funeral Mass took place at St Columba’s Church, Iona Road, Glasnevin, Dublin. Parish priest Fr Jim Caffrey recalled a “formidable woman of principle”.