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1999 Cork City Council Election
An election to Cork City Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of 1999 Irish local elections, that year's Irish local elections. 31 councillors were elected from six local electoral areas on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV) for a five-year term of office. Results by party Results by local electoral area Cork North-Central Cork North-East Cork North-West Cork South-Central Cork South-East Cork South-West External links * http://www.corkcity.ie/ {{1999 Irish local elections 1999 Irish local elections Cork City Council elections, 1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cork City Council
Cork City Council ( ga, Comhairle Cathrach Chorcaí) is the authority responsible for local government in the city of Cork in Ireland. As a city council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. Prior to the enactment of the 2001 Act, the council was known as Cork Corporation. The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, environment and the management of some emergency services (including Cork City Fire Brigade). The council has 31 elected members. Elections are held every five years and are by single transferable vote. The head of the council has the honorific title of Lord Mayor of Cork. The city administration is headed by a Chief Executive, Ann Doherty. The council meets at City Hall, Cork. 2019 boundary change The boundary of Cork City Council was extended from 31 May 2019, taking in territory formerly part of Cork County Council. This implemented changes under the Local Gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael O'Connell (politician)
Michael O'Connell is an Irish Labour Party politician and former Lord Mayor of Cork. He was born in Cork Cork or CORK may refer to: Materials * Cork (material), an impermeable buoyant plant product ** Cork (plug), a cylindrical or conical object used to seal a container ***Wine cork Places Ireland * Cork (city) ** Metropolitan Cork, also known as G ... and represented the North West electoral area. He was first elected onto the Cork City Council in 1999, and served as Deputy Lord Mayor in 2006–2007. He has been a member of many Committees of Council and in June 2005 was elected Chair of the Cork City housing committee. He lost his seat at the 2014 Local Elections. Born in 1952, he was originally from Farranferris Place in Farranree, on the north side of Cork City, he attended the North Monastery Secondary School. By 2010, O’Connell was living in Briar's Court in Shanakiel, representing the North-West ward, where he was first elected in 1999. He was a member of the Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Bermingham
Brian Bermingham is a former Irish Fine Gael politician and former Cork City Council member. He was the Lord Mayor of Cork from 2008 to 2009. He successfully contested 4 local government elections in the Cork South West local electoral area between 1999 and 2009. Political career At age 14 he joined Young Fine Gael. He was first elected to Cork City Council in 1979 aside Councillors Donal Counihan, Denis Cregan and Maureen Quill. In 1988, he joined the Progressive Democrats and on 27 June 1991 he was elected into Cork South West with 861 first preference votes (10.41%). After ten years with the Progressive Democrats he moved back to Fine Gael and he went on to contest the 1999 elections, he was elected on 10 June 1999. He was elected onto the City Council again in 2004. He was elected as Lord Mayor of Cork in June 2008, 40 years after his father John Bermingham, who was elected in 1968. He served as Chairperson for the Cork City Council during this time. In 2009, he hosted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dennehy
John Dennehy (born 22 March 1940) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central constituency. Early life Dennehy was educated at Sharman Crawford Technical Institute and Cork College of Commerce. A fitter by trade, Dennehy spent most of his working life with Irish Steel in Haulbowline until he went full-time into politics. Career Dennehy was elected to Cork City Council for the South–West area in 1974 and subsequently re-elected at every election until he resigned from the council in 2003 due to the dual mandate rule. He was Lord Mayor of Cork from 1983 to 1984. He stood unsuccessfully at the 1977 general election for the Cork Mid constituency, and in 1979 he was narrowly defeated in a by-election for the Cork City constituency by Fine Gael's Liam Burke in one of a string of by-election defeats for the Fianna Fáil government. Dennehy was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1987 general election but lost his sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Minihan (politician)
John Minihan (born 24 November 1957) is a former Irish politician who served as a member of Seanad Éireann for the Progressive Democrats. He had previously served in the Irish Defence Forces where he attained the rank of captain. He stood as Progressive Democrat candidate for the Cork South-Central constituency at the 2007 general election. Life before politics Born in County Cork, Ireland, Minihan entered Military College in November 1975 and was stationed in the Eastern Command section. He served three tours of duty with United Nations peacekeeping forces in Lebanon. After his final tour of duty in Lebanon, he returned to Cork where he served as Adjutant in Collins Barracks. In 1996 he retired at the rank of captain to run the family pharmacy business. Political career Minihan entered local politics in 1999 when he was elected to Cork City Council for the Progressive Democrats. In July 2003 he was elected Chairman of the Progressive Democrats. He unsuccessfully contested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Corr (politician)
James A. Corr (born 25 January 1934) is a former Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Lord Mayor of Cork from 1979 to 1980 and 1996 to 1997. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central (Dáil constituency), Cork South-Central from February 1982 to November 1982. Corr was a member of Cork City Council from 1973 to 2014. He was first co-option, co-opted to the council (then called Cork Municipal corporation, Corporation) in 1973, and elected at the 1974 Irish local elections, 1974 local elections. He was Lord Mayor of Cork in 1979 and 1996. When the five-seat Cork South-Central (Dáil constituency), Cork South-Central constituency was created in 1980, Fine Gael's support was sufficient for two seats. Peter Barry (politician), Peter Barry was the party's senior Teachta Dála, TD; Corr had a rivalry with Hugh Coveney for the second Fine Gael seat. Coveney narrowly beat Corr at the 1981 Irish general election, 1981 general election, but Corr won by a larger margi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre Clune
Deirdre Clune (; born 1 June 1959) is an Irish politician who is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the South constituency. She is a member of Fine Gael, part of the European People's Party. She previously served as a Senator for the Cultural and Educational Panel from 2011 to 2014, a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central constituency from 1997 to 2002 and 2007 to 2011 and Lord Mayor of Cork from 2005 to 2006. Early life Clune was educated at Ursuline Convent Cork, and went on to graduate from University College Cork in 1980, with a B.E. in Civil Engineering. She completed a diploma in Management Engineering at Trinity College Dublin in 1983 and returned to UCC in 1996 to complete her HDip in Environmental Engineering. Political career Clune was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1997 general election succeeding her father, Peter Barry who was retiring. Her grandfather Anthony Barry had also been a TD, making her a third generation member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Shannon (politician)
Terry Shannon (born 12 June 1962) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and a former Lord Mayor of Cork. He has served on Cork City Council since 1999, representing the South East electoral area. Prior to his election to the council, Shannon was a member of the Fianna Fáil National Youth Committee, chairperson of Cork North Central Ógra, and election agent to TD Micheál Martin Micheál Martin (; born 1 August 1960) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who is serving as Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ireland), Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence (Ireland), Minister for Defence since Decembe .... Shannon topped the poll in his first city council election with a 14.2% share of the vote. He has been re-elected four times, in 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019. He was elected to the office of Lord Mayor on 24 June 2011, having previously served as Deputy Lord Mayor in 2009. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Shannon, Terry Living people Fianna Fáil local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciarán Lynch
Ciarán Lynch (born 13 June 1964) is a former Irish Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central constituency from 2007 to 2016. He was educated at University College Cork, studying Social studies, and at the Waterford Institute of Technology, studying Humanities. Lynch has been a member of the constituency executive since 1999. He works as an Adult Literacy Organiser in Cork and is married with two children. Lynch served as a member of Cork City Council from 2004 to 2007, and was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2007 general election. He was re-elected at the 2011 general election. He was the Labour Party spokesperson on Housing and Local Government. Lynch launched the Simon Communities National Conference on Homelessness and Health in 2011. He is brother-in-law to Kathleen Lynch who was a Labour Party TD for Cork North-Central. He lost his seat at the 2016 general election. See also *Families in the Oireachtas There is a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Boyle (politician)
Dan Boyle (born 14 August 1962) is an Irish Green Party politician and author who served as Deputy leader of Seanad Éireann from 2007 to 2011. He was a Senator from 2007 to 2011, after being nominated by the Taoiseach. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central from 2002 to 2007. He was elected to Cork City Council in May 2019. Early life and education Boyle was born in Chicago, Illinois, to emigrant Irish parents. He has lived in his mother's native city of Cork since he was eight years of age, in the Turners Cross area of the city. He was educated at local schools; Scoil Chríost Rí and Coláiste Chríost Rí, and at the Cork Institute of Technology, where he studied Business Studies and Child Care. He received an MBS in Government from University College Cork in 2015. He was married to Bláithín Hurley from 1987 to 2014, they have one daughter. At the time of the 1992 general election, he had served as a board member of the Cork Youth Federation, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Cregan
Denis Cregan (born 4 May 1940) is an Irish publican and former Fine Gael party politician from Cork, who served for 17 years as a senator. A former branch vice-president of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, Cregan was a long-standing member of Cork City Council from 1979 to 2009, and was Lord Mayor of Cork from 1991 to 1992. He had unsuccessfully contested the Cork South-Central constituency at the 1981 and February 1982 general elections. He stood in the 1982 Seanad elections, winning a seat on the Labour Panel, which he held until his defeat in the 1989 elections to the 19th Seanad Éireann. He was unsuccessful again when he stood again in Cork South-Central at the 1992 general election, but in the subsequent elections to the 20th Seanad he was re-elected on the Labour Panel. He was re-elected in 1997 to the 21st Seanad, but was narrowly defeated in the 2002 elections to the 22nd Seanad. At the 2004 local elections, he held his seat on Cork City Council, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom O'Driscoll
Tom O'Driscoll is an Irish local politician who previously served as Fianna Fáil Councillor on Cork City Council, representing the Cork City South Central Local Electoral Area. He was first elected at the 1991 Cork Corporation election and retained his seat until he lost his seat at the 2009 elections The following elections occurred in the year 2009. * Electoral calendar 2009 * 2009 United Nations Security Council election Caribbean * 2009 Antiguan general election * 2009 Aruban general election * 2009 Caymanian constitutional referendu .... A communications lecturer at St John's College of Further Education in Cork he served as Lord Mayor of Cork from 2001 to 2002. O'Driscoll regained his seat at the 2014 local elections. He did not contest the 2019 local elections. References {{DEFAULTSORT:ODriscoll, Tom Living people Fianna Fáil local councillors Members of Cork City Council Lord Mayors of Cork Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
