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2014 Cork County Council Election
An election to all 55 seats on Cork County Council was held on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, contested by a field of 114 candidates. County Cork was divided into 8 local electoral areas to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). Irish Times, 2014-05-15.Local Election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cork County Council
Cork County Council ( ga, Comhairle Contae Chorcaí) is the authority responsible for local government in County Cork, 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 55 elected members. Elections are held every five years and are by single transferable vote. The head of the council has the title of Mayor. The county administration is headed by a Chief Executive, Tim Lucey. The county seat is Cork. History Originally meetings of Cork County Council were held in the back portion of the top floor of Cork Courthouse. By the 1950s these premises were becoming inadequate and County Hall opened in April 1968. Boundary change The area of Cork County Council was reduced on 31 May 2019, ceding territory to Cork City Council. This implemented changes under the Local Government Act 2019. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (; born 8 February 1989) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central constituency since the 2016 general election. Ó Laoghaire is from Togher, Cork. He attended University College Cork and graduated with a law degree. While in UCC, he joined Sinn Féin's youth wing Ógra Shinn Féin, eventually taking a year out to work as an organiser for Ógra. He then worked as a parliamentary assistant for Sinn Féin politicians David Cullinane, Trevor Ó Clochartaigh and Sandra McLellan. While working as McLellan's parliamentary assistant, he ran in the 2014 Cork County Council election, and was elected, serving as a member of Cork County Council from 2014 to 2016. He was re-elected at the 2020 general election. As of 2021, he is Sinn Féin's spokesperson for Education. In April 2021, Ó Laoghaire settled a defamation claim against RTÉ for over €150,000 following comments made about Ó Laoghaire on Livelin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Murphy (politician)
Gerard Murphy (born 25 March 1951) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as a Cork County Councillor since May 2009. He previously served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North-West constituency from 2002 to 2007. Murphy was elected to the 29th Dail at the 2002 general election, ousting his Fine Gael running-mate, three-term TD Michael Creed. He was Fine Gael's deputy spokesperson on Justice. He was previously a member of Cork County Council, to which he was elected in 1991. He lost his seat at the 2007 general election to his running-mate Michael Creed. Following his defeat, he ran for election to Seanad Éireann but was defeated. He was re-elected to Cork County Council for the Kanturk local electoral area at the 2009 local elections. He was returned again to Cork County Council Cork County Council ( ga, Comhairle Contae Chorcaí) is the authority responsible for local government in County Cork, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin O'Keeffe (politician)
Kevin O'Keeffe (born 9 March 1964) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork East constituency from 2016 to 2020. He was a member of Cork County Council Cork County Council ( ga, Comhairle Contae Chorcaí) is the authority responsible for local government in County Cork, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. The council is responsible for housing and ... from 1997 to 2016. He is a son of former TD Ned O'Keeffe. At the general election in February 2020, O'Keefe lost his seat in the Cork East constituency. His defeat surprised pundits. References External linksKevin O'Keeffe's page on the Fianna Fáil website {{DEFAULTSORT:OKeeffe, Kevin 1964 births Living people Members of the 32nd Dáil Fianna Fáil TDs Members of Cork County Council Alumni of Cork Institute of Technology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Buckley (Irish Politician)
Pat Buckley (born 10 February 1969) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork East constituency since the 2016 general election. He was a member of Cork County Council from 2014 to 2016. Personal life He is a native of Midleton, County Cork. Buckley is married to Sandra and they have two children. Before entering politics Buckley made a living in construction work. His father had been a stonemason in the Midleton area. Between 2002 and 2003, Buckley lost two brothers, Mark (30) and James (22) to suicide. This prompted him to become an active mental health, wellness and suicide prevention campaigner and he has spoken about his experience many times. Buckley and other concerned people in the Midelton community set up a charity, the Let's Get Together Foundation, to help raise awareness of the problem. Political career Buckley was elected to Cork County Council for the Cork East local electoral area in 2014, with 12.11% of the first pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ahern (Irish Politician)
Michael Ahern (born 20 January 1949) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Minister of State from 1992 to 1993 and from 2002 to 2008. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork East constituency from 1982 to 2011. Early life Michael Ahern was born in Dungourney, County Cork. He was educated at Dungourney National School, Rockwell College, County Tipperary, and University College Dublin where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Politics and Psychology. He also attended Kimmage Manor, Dublin where he studied Theology. For a brief period in the early 1970s, Ahern worked as a secondary school teacher. In 1973, he became an accountancy student at Coopers & Lybrand, Cork. In 1977, he became financial controller with a building construction firm in Cork. Personal life He is married to Margaret Monahan and they have three daughters, one of whom, Barbara Ahern, contested the 2016 general election in Cork East for Fianna Fáil unsuccessfully. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pádraig O'Sullivan
Pádraig O'Sullivan (born 11 May 1984) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North-Central constituency since the 2019 by-election. He was a member of Cork County Council for the Cobh local electoral area from 2014 to 2019. Before he joined Fianna Fail in July 2012, he ran as an independent as part of the New Vision alliance at the 2011 general election. Sheila O'Callaghan was co-opted to O'Sullivan's seat on Cork County Council following his election to the Dáil. At the general election in February 2020, O'Sullivan was re-elected in his Cork North-Central constituency. A teacher by profession, O'Sullivan teaches Irish and history at Coláiste an Chraoibhín. He lives in Glanmire Glanmire () is a suburban town from Cork city centre, in the civil parish of Rathcooney, County Cork, Ireland. Glanmire is within the administrative area of Cork City Council and the Dáil constituency of Cork North-Central. The greater Gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Des O'Grady
Desmond O'Grady (born 1953) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played as a left wing-back at senior level for the Cork county team. Born in Togher, Cork, O'Grady first played competitive football during his youth. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty-one when he first linked up with the Cork under-21 team. He made his senior debut during the 1977 championship. O'Grady was a regular member of the team for just one season. He was a Munster runner-up on one occasion. At club level O'Grady is a one-time All-Ireland medallist with St Finbarr's. In addition to this he also won two Munster medals and three championship medals. His brother, Dónal, was an All-Ireland medallist as a player and as a manager with the Cork senior hurling team. In 2014, O'Grady was elected to Cork County Council as a Sinn Féin member. Honours ;St Finbarr's *All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship (1): 1981 *Munster Senior Club Football Championship (2): 1979, 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aindrias Moynihan
Aindrias Moynihan (born 17 October 1967) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North-West constituency since the 2016 general election. Cork County Council He was a member of Cork County Council for the Blarney-Macroom local electoral area from 2003 to 2016. Dáil Éireann Moynihan was elected been as a Teachta Dála A Teachta Dála ( , ; plural ), abbreviated as TD (plural ''TDanna'' in Irish, TDs in English), is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (the Irish Parliament). It is the equivalent of terms such as ''Member of Parli ... (TD) for the Cork North-West constituency in the 2016 general election. He is the son of Donal Moynihan who was also a TD. References External linksAindrias Moynihan's page on the Fianna Fáil website {{DEFAULTSORT:Moynihan, Aindrias 1967 births Living people Members of the 32nd Dáil Members of the 33rd Dáil Fianna Fáil TDs Members of Cork County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (born 3 April 1969) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-West constituency from 2016 to 2020. She had been a member of Cork County Council for the Bandon-Kinsale Kinsale ( ; ) is a historic port and fishing town in County Cork, Ireland. Located approximately south of Cork City on the southeast coast near the Old Head of Kinsale, it sits at the mouth of the River Bandon, and has a population of 5,281 (a ... local electoral area from 2014 to 2016. She is anti-abortion and did not support the repeal of the eighth amendment. She was the Fianna Fáil spokesperson on Disability from 2016 to 2020. She lost her seat at the 2020 general election. She unsuccessfully contested the 2020 Seanad election. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Murphy OMahony, Margaret 1969 births Living people Fianna Fáil TDs Members of Cork County Council Members of the 32nd Dáil 21st-century women Teachtaí Dál ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Lombard
Tim Lombard (born 17 February 1976) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as a Senator for the Agricultural Panel since April 2016. He was a member of Cork County Council from 2009 to 2016. He was Mayor of County Cork County Cork ( ga, Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns a ... from 2011 to 2012, being the then youngest ever mayor. He is the Fine Gael Seanad spokesperson on Communications, Climate Action and the Environment. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Cork South-West constituency at the 2020 general election. References External linksTim Lombard's page on the Fine Gael website 1976 births Living people Fine Gael senators Politicians from County Cork Members of the 25th Seanad Members of the 26th Seanad Members of Cork County Council Agricultural P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
