David Norris is an
Irish gay rights campaigner, former university lecturer and longtime member of the Irish Senate (
Seanad Éireann). He is the founder of the
Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform with current
President of Ireland Mary McAleese, and had
Mary Robinson as one of his campaign's legal advisors. A prominent member of the
Church of Ireland he has been spoken of as possibly the next
president of Ireland, having been offered a nomination in for the 1997 presidential election.