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1999 Kerry County Council Election
An election to Kerry County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 27 councillors were elected from five 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 Electoral Area Dingle Killarney Killorglin Listowel Tralee External links * https://www.housing.gov.ie/sites/default/files/migrated-files/en/Publications/LocalGovernment/Voting/FileDownLoad%2C1889%2Cen.pdf Official website* http://irelandelection.com/council.php?elecid=173&tab=constit&detail=yes&electype=5&councilid=12&electype=5 * https://irishelectionliterature.com/others-project/old-local-election-results/ {{1999 Irish local elections 1999 Irish local elections 1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Kerry County Council Election
An election to Kerry County Council took place on 27 June 1991 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 twice, first to 1998, then to 1999. Results by party Results by local electoral area Killarney Killorglin Listowel Mid-Kerry Tralee References External links * https://opac.oireachtas.ie/knowvation/app/consolidatedSearch/#search/v=grid,c=1,q=qs%3D%5Blocal%20elections%5D%2CqueryType%3D%5B16%5D,sm=s,l=library3_lib Official website* https://irishelectionliterature.com/others-project/old-local-election-results/ * http://irelandelection.com/council.php?elecid=171&tab=constit&detail=yes&electype=5&councilid=12&electype=5 {{1991 Irish local elections 1991 Irish local elections 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Coghlan
Paul Coghlan (born 1 June 1944) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Leas-Chathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from June 2016 to March 2020, and a Senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel from September 1997 to March 2020. Coghlan unsuccessfully contested the 1992 general election in the Kerry South, constituency. He then stood on the Agricultural Panel in the election to the 20th Seanad, but did not win a seat. In 1997 he was elected to the 21st Seanad by the Industrial and Commercial Panel, and re-elected in 2002 to the 22nd Seanad, where he was Fine Gael spokesperson on Enterprise, Trade and Employment. He was re-elected in 2007 to the 23rd Seanad, again by the Industrial and Commercial Panel. Born in Killarney and still resident in Kerry, he is a member and former President of Killarney Chamber of Commerce. He was a founding director of Radio Kerry and is a trustee and former Chairman of Muckross House. He is also a member of the Institute of Bank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom McEllistrim (born 1968)
Thomas McEllistrim (born 24 October 1968) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry North constituency from 2002 to 2011. A schoolteacher by profession, McEllistrim was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2002 general election. His father, Tom McEllistrim, and his grandfather, also called Tom McEllistrim both previously held the same seat. McEllistrim lost his Dáil seat at the 2011 general election. He was elected to Kerry County Council for the Tralee local electoral area at the 2014 local elections. In March 2015, McEllistrim sought a Dáil nomination for Fianna Fáil for the new Kerry constituency but was defeated at the convention by fellow County Councillor, John Brassil. He contested the Seanad Éireann elections in April 2016 for the Industrial and Commercial Panel, but was again unsuccessful. He lost his council seat at the 2019 local elections. See also *Families in the Oireachtas There is a traditio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Ferris
Martin Ferris (born 28 March 1952) is a former Irish Sinn Féin politician and former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) Volunteer (Irish republican), volunteer who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 2002 to 2020. Early and personal life Ferris was born in Strand Street in Tralee, County Kerry, in 1952. His father was a farmer who was also a caretaker for Barrow House, which was at that time owned by an aunt. He was educated locally at Barrow National School, before going on to St Mary's CBS (The Green) and Tralee Technical School. He left school early, working on his family's farm and as a fisherman. His father died from a stroke in 1970. Martin met his wife, Máire (''née'' Hoare), after his release from Portlaoise Prison in 1977. They married in January 1978 and have six children. A daughter, Toiréasa Ferris, Toiréasa, is a former Cathaoirleach (chairperson) of Kerry County Council and Kerry County Councillor for the Tralee electoral area. Gaelic football career Fer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brassil
John Brassil (born 19 March 1963) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry constituency from 2016 to 2020. He gained the Fianna Fáil nomination in 2015, ahead of former North Kerry TD Tom McEllistrim, who lost his seat at the 2011 general election. As Norma Moriarty, Fianna Fáil's other candidate in Kerry was based in the south of the constituency, Brassil held the monopoly in a traditionally Fianna Fáil region of North Kerry. Brassil was appointed by Micheál Martin as the Fianna Fáil junior spokesperson on primary care and community health services. He is a pharmacist by profession. He was a member of Kerry County Council from 1999 to 2016 for the Listowel local electoral area. He lost his seat at the general election in February 2020, to his party colleague Norma Foley Norma may refer to: * Norma (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) Astronomy *Norma (constellation) * 555 Norma, a min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ned O'Sullivan
Ned O'Sullivan (born 25 November 1950) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as a Senator for the Labour Panel since July 2007. He was a member of Listowel Town Council from 1985 to 2007 and Kerry County Council from 1991 to 2007. He was educated at University College Dublin and St Patrick's College of Education, Drumcondra, he worked as a teacher at primary and secondary level in Dublin, Offaly and Kerry before taking over his family's menswear business in Listowel. He was a cousin of Kit Ahern, who served as a TD and Senator. In December 2008, he sent silk ties (worth €25 each) to approximately 400 County councillors. He is the Fianna Fáil Seanad spokesperson on Transport, Tourism and Sport. In June 2011, it was revealed that 3,600 premium line votes from a phone in Leinster House at a cost of €2,600 to the Irish taxpayer helped Michael Healy-Rae Michael Healy-Rae (born 9 January 1967) is an Irish Independent politician who has been a Teachta Dála ... [...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] |
Michael Healy-Rae
Michael Healy-Rae (born 9 January 1967) is an Irish Independent politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry constituency since 2016, and previously from 2011 to 2016 for the Kerry South constituency. He previously served as Chair of the Committee on European Union Affairs from 2016 to 2020. Prior to entering national politics, he was involved in local politics in County Kerry and pursued business interests. Family life He is the youngest son of Jackie Healy-Rae, who was a TD for Kerry South from 1997 to 2011, and a brother of Danny Healy-Rae who is also a TD. His mother, Julie Healy, was born in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., but grew up in New York City, New York. He has 5 children, two of whom were found guilty and convicted of assault charges in 2019. His son, Jackie Healy-Rae Jnr, was elected as a councillor for Castleisland LEA at the 2019 Kerry County Council election. Local politics Healy-Rae is a former member of Kerry County Council, and was first ... [...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] |
Michael Gleeson (politician)
Michael Gleeson (born 1946 in Killarney, County Kerry) is an Irish politician and former sportsperson. Sporting career He played Gaelic football with his local club Spa and was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team from 1969 until 1972. He was also a member of the Kerry junior team and won an All-Ireland Junior Football Championship medal in 1967. He won 3 Kerry Senior Football Championships, a Munster Senior Club Football Championship and an All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship with East Kerry. With Spa he won 7 East Kerry Senior Football Championship titles and a County Intermediate Football Championship. During his college days in Dublin he won a Dublin Under 21 Football Championship with Erins Hope in 1966. He later played with UCD and won a Sigerson Cup with them. Political career He was a Killarney town councillor from 1991 to 2014 and has been a Kerry County Councillor since 1999, as part of the Kerry Independent Alliance The Kerry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Kerry County Council Election ...
An election to Kerry County Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 27 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office. Results by party Results by local electoral area Dingle Killarney Killorglin Listowel Tralee External links Voting dataCouncil ResultsOld Local Election Results {{2004 Irish local elections 2004 Irish local elections 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |