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1985 Kerry County Council Election
An election to Kerry County Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 27 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). This term was extended for a further year, to 1991. Results by party Results by local electoral area Killarney Killorglin Listowel Mid-Kerry Tralee References External links * * {{1985 Irish local elections Kerry Kerry County Council elections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry County Council
Kerry County Council ( ga, Comhairle Contae Chiarraí) is the authority responsible for local government in County Kerry, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, and environment. The council has 33 elected members. Elections are held every five years and are by single transferable vote. The head of the council has the title of Cathaoirleach (Chairperson). The county administration is headed by a Chief Executive, Moira Murrell. The county town is Tralee. History 1898 to 1922 Following the independence of the Irish Free State, responsibility for local government was taken by the new government. Kerry County Council was created by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, legislation passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, of which Ireland formed a part at that time. The 1898 act introduced elected count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John O'Donoghue (politician)
John O'Donoghue (born 28 May 1956) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 2007 to 2009, Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism from 2002 to 2007, Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform from 1997 to 2002 and Minister of State at the Department of Finance from 1991 to 1992. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry South constituency from 1987 to 2011. Early and private life O'Donoghue was born in Cork in 1956, but is a native of Cahersiveen, County Kerry. He was educated locally at Cahersiveen CBS and later attended University College Cork (UCC) where he studied law. He graduated from UCC in 1976 with a BCL (Hons) and in 1977 with a LLB (Hons). O'Donoghue later attended the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland from where he graduated as a solicitor in 1978. Once qualified he practised as a solicitor in his home town of Cahersiveen before entering political life. O'Donoghue is married to Kate Ann Murphy and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Foley
Denis Foley (14 May 1934 – 26 October 2013) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry North constituency from 1981 to 1989 and 1992 to 2002 and a Senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel from 1989 to 1992. A former rates collector, in the 1970s, Foley successfully ran The Central Ballroom in Ballybunion and the ballroom of The Brandon Hotel. He also had an interest in The Hillgrove Hotel in Dingle at one stage, and had extensive property holdings in Tralee. Foley was a member of Kerry County Council from 1979, and was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1981 general election. He retained his seat through three general elections until his defeat at the 1989 general election by party rival Tom McEllistrim (who, unlike Foley, was a supporter of the then leader of Fianna Fáil, Charles Haughey). He was then elected to the 19th Seanad as a Senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel, and regained his Dáil seat at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Moynihan (Kerry Politician)
Michael Moynihan (17 June 1917 – 27 June 2001) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as Minister of State at the Department of Trade, Commerce and Tourism from 1982 to 1987. He served as a Senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel from 1973 to 1982 and as a Teachta Dála for the Kerry South constituency from 1981 to 1987 and 1989 to 1992. Moynihan was born in Kinsale, County Cork, in 1917. He was a psychiatric nurse by profession. He was elected in 1973 to the 13th Seanad as a Senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel, which re-elected him in 1977 to the 14th Seanad. He was elected to the 22nd Dáil at the 1981 general election, becoming the first ever Labour Party TD for Kerry South, and returned to the 23rd Dáil at the February 1982 general election. He was re-elected at the November 1982 general election, sitting in the 24th Dáil. He served as Minister of State at the Department of Trade, Commerce and Tourism from 1982 to 1987. Moynihan was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Begley (politician)
Michael Begley (22 August 1932 – 26 March 2012) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Minister of State at the Department of Trade, Commerce and Tourism from 1981 to 1982, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance from 1975 to 1977 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Local Government from 1973 to 1975. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry South constituency from 1969 to 1989. Born in Dingle, County Kerry, in 1932, to a farming family. Begley was a carpenter and secondary school teacher before entering national politics. Prior to his election as a TD, Begley was elected to Kerry County Council and subsequently served as chairman of the council in 1966–67. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann on his third attempt at the 1969 general election for Kerry South. Four years later in 1973, Fine Gael came to power in coalition government with the Labour Party and Begley was appointed as Minister of State with responsibility fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom McEllistrim (1926–2000)
Thomas McEllistrim (15 January 1926 – 25 February 2000) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Minister of State from 1979 to 1981 and from March 1982 to December 1982. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry North constituency from 1969 to 1987 and 1989 to 1992 and a Senator from 1987 to 1989, upon being Nominated by the Taoiseach. Born in Boherbue, County Cork in 1926, McEllistrim was the son of the Fianna Fáil politician and War of Independence veteran, Tom McEllistrim. McEllistrim the younger succeeded his father when he was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD for the Kerry North constituency at the 1969 general election. At the 1977 general election, McEllistrim was elected along with his running mate Kit Ahern. This was the first time that Fianna Fáil had won two seats in the three-seat Kerry North constituency. McEllistrim, who was given much credit for this victory, was disappointed not to receive a promotion as a Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Kiely
Daniel Kiely (born 10 May 1940) is an auctioneer and former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was a senator for many years and also served on Kerry County Council from the 1980s through to the 2000s. Born in Tarbert, County Kerry, Kiely was elected in 1981 to the 15th Seanad, on the Labour Panel. At the February 1982 general election, he stood unsuccessfully for Dáil Éireann in the Kerry North constituency. This was the first of three successive defeats in Dáil elections: he also contested both the November 1982 and 1981 general elections without winning a seat. Kiely did not contest the 1982 Seanad election, and failed to regain his seat when he stood again at the 1983 election. He was re-elected at the 1987 election to the 18th Seanad, and held the seat until a further defeat at the but was defeated at the 2002 Seanad. He was also a member of Kerry County Council for the Listowel electoral area, but was defeated at the 2004 local elections. He was co-opted to the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Deenihan
Jimmy Deenihan (born 11 September 1952) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister of State for the Diaspora from 2014 to 2016, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht from 2011 to 2014 and Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry from 1994 to 1997. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1987 to 2016. He was a Senator from 1983 to 1987, after being nominated by the Taoiseach. Deenihan played Gaelic football for the Kerry county team in the 1970s and 1980s. He also played rugby with Garryowen. Early and private life Deenihan was born in Finuge, Lixnaw, County Kerry, in 1952. He was educated at St Michael's College, Listowel and later at the Thomond College of Education in Limerick. He also spent time in college in the UK. He is married to Mary, daughter of former Kerry footballer John Dowling, who is a teacher of history and economics in Mercy Secondary School, Mounthawk. Football career Club Deenihan had much succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddy O'Callaghan
Paddy O'Callaghan (1933 – 15 August 2014) was a former Irish amateur cycling champion and a one-time Official Sinn Féin member of Kerry County Council. He is a second cousin of former United States vice-president Dick Cheney but differs strongly with his political point of view being a member of the Workers' Party for many years. O'Callaghan was born in the Aglish area of Ballyhar near Cromane, County Kerry in 1933. As a youth he became active in the National Athletic & Cultural Association of Ireland (NACAI, now known as Cycling Ireland) and particularly in the sport of cycling. In 1956 he won the Irish Cycling Championship taking the 100mile Time Trial in 1956 with a time of 4 hours and 27 minutes. In more recent years he has been involved with the FBD Rás cycling competition. At the time one of the NACAI's most prominent members and a national cycling champion was Dublin born Joe Christle who was also an active member of the Irish Republican Army. Under Christle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick O'Connell
Michael O'Connell (born 4 January 1937) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer. Throughout his 25-year club career, he played for Valentia Young Islanders GAA, Young Islanders, winning seven South Kerry Championship titles during a golden age for the club; he also played for divisional side South Kerry GAA, South Kerry, and experienced success in the Kerry Senior Football Championship, County Championship. At inter-county level, he List of Kerry senior Gaelic football team captains, captained Kerry county football team, Kerry to win the 1959 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, 1959 All-Ireland Championship; he later claimed a further three All-Ireland medals, as well as Munster Senior Football Championship, Munster Championship and National Football League (Ireland), National League successes. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Randles (hurler)
Tom Randles is a former hurler from Kilgarvan County Kerry. He played hurling for the Kilgarvan club in the 1950s up to the 1980s, winning County Championships in 1956 and 1958. In 2008, he made headlines by playing a full 60-minute match for Kilgarvan at the age of 71, fifty years after winning his last county championship. He also played football with Kilgarvan. Politics Randles unsuccessfully ran for election to Kerry County Council in the Killarney area on four different occasions, initially as a Fine Gael candidate in 1979 and 1985 and as an Independent in 1999 and 2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 .... Randles also ran in the November 1982 Irish general election for Fine Gael, as a running mate to then TD Michael Begley in the constituency of K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 Irish Local Elections
The 1985 Irish local elections were held in all the counties, cities and towns of Ireland on Thursday, 20 June 1985. Ireland was divided into local government areas of administrative counties and county boroughs, with a second tier in certain areas of boroughs, urban districts and towns with boards of commissioners. The elections were postponed from June 1984. This allowed the Local Government (Reorganisation) Act 1985 to be enacted beforehand. Each local government area was divided into local electoral areas (LEAs) to be elected on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). Administrative changes Under the Local Government (Reorganisation) Act 1985, the borough of Galway ceased to be part of County Galway and became a county borough with its own city council. County Dublin was divided into three electoral counties: Dublin—Belgard, Dublin—Fingal and Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown. No separate election was to be held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
