   trevor sargent (born 26 july 1960) is a former irish green party politician. he was a teachta dÃ¡la (td) for the dublin north constituency from 1992 to 2011. he was leader of the green party from 2001 to 2007. ==personal life== 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 partner, aine neville, in tacumshin, county wexford, where they are developing an organic horticulture enterprise. they are also members of the wexford naturalists' field club. ==local politics== a committed environmentalist since the early 1980s, trevor sargent first became politically active when he join
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