Irish-American candidate Feerick inches ahead in Queens

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CAHIR O'DOHERTY,

IrishCentral.com

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In recent weeks Feerick’s candidacy has attracted the support of prominent Irish community leaders like Ciaran Staunton, leader of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform and Brendan Fay, the human rights activist and same-sex marriage advocate. Irish American Congressman Joe Crowley and well-known attorney Brian O’Dwyer have also lined up in recent days.

The eldest of six sisters, Feerick is a graduate of St. Raphael’s grammar school, the University of Albany and Brooklyn Law School. Her late father was a retired NYPD detective and her mother is a nurse.
With just days to the election Feerick has also won the support of a broad spectrum of elected officials and labor and civic groups, including Borough President Helen Marshall, the city’s police, fire, correction and sanitation unions, Queens County Puerto Ricans for Political Action and the Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens. 

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