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2019 Cork City Council Election
A Cork City Council election was held in Cork city in Ireland on 24 May 2019 as part of that year's local elections. Thirty-one councillors were elected from five local electoral areas (LEAs) by single transferable vote. This election broadly coincided with an increase in the city council area, and several outgoing members of Cork County Council, based in areas transferred to the city, stood for election to the city council. Besides extending all LEAs into the former county area, the former LEA of North Central was abolished and its area divided between North West and North East. Under the Local Government Act 2019, voters in the city were also asked to contribute to a plebiscite on whether to have a directly-elected executive mayor. Voters rejected the proposal in favour of retaining the existing ceremonial Lord Mayor of Cork, who is chosen annually by the councillors from among their number. Results by party Results by local electoral area Cork City North East ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
2019 Cork North-Central By-election
A by-election was held in the Cork North-Central constituency of Dáil Éireann on Friday, 29 November 2019, to fill the vacancy left by the election to the European Parliament of outgoing TD Billy Kelleher of Fianna Fáil. The election was won by Pádraig O'Sullivan, a Fianna Fáil member of Cork County Council. Sheila O'Callaghan was co-opted to O'Sullivan's seat on Cork County Council following his election to the Dáil. Three other by-elections were held on the same day, in Dublin Fingal, Dublin Mid-West, and Wexford. The Electoral (Amendment) Act 204 stipulates that a by-election in Ireland must be held within six months of a vacancy occurring. The by-election writ was moved in the Dáil on 7 November 2019. At the 2016 general election, the electorate of Cork North-Central was 81,609, and the constituency elected one Fianna Fáil TD, one AAA–PBP TD, one Sinn Féin TD, and one Fine Gael TD. The 2019 electorate was 85,524 (a 4.8% increase). Among the by-election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Times
''The Irish Times'' is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication. It launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Ruadhán Mac Cormaic. It is published every day except Sundays. ''The Irish Times'' is considered a newspaper of record for Ireland. Though formed as a Protestant nationalist paper, within two decades and under new owners it had become the voice of British unionism in Ireland. It is no longer a pro unionist paper; it presents itself politically as "liberal and progressive", as well as being centre-right on economic issues. The editorship of the newspaper from 1859 until 1986 was controlled by the Anglo-Irish Protestant minority, only gaining its first nominal Irish Catholic editor 127 years into its existence. The paper's most prominent columnists include writer and arts commentator Fintan O'Toole and satirist Miriam Lord. The late Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald was once a columnist. Senior international figures, including Tony Blair and Bill Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dáil Éireann
Dáil Éireann ( , ; ) is the lower house, and principal chamber, of the Oireachtas (Irish legislature), which also includes the President of Ireland and Seanad Éireann (the upper house).Article 15.1.2º of the Constitution of Ireland reads: "The Oireachtas shall consist of the President and two Houses, viz.: a House of Representatives to be called Dáil Éireann and a Senate to be called Seanad Éireann." It consists of 160 members, each known as a (plural , commonly abbreviated as TDs). TDs represent 39 constituencies and are directly elected for terms not exceeding five years, on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). Its powers are similar to those of lower houses under many other bicameral parliamentary systems and it is by far the dominant branch of the Oireachtas. Subject to the limits imposed by the Constitution of Ireland, it has power to pass any law it wishes, and to nominate and remove the Taoiseach (head of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gould (politician)
Thomas Gould (born July 1968) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North-Central constituency since the 2020 general election. Political career He was a member of Cork City Council, originally for the Cork City North Central Ward in 2009 and for the Cork City North West local electoral area from 2019. Gould was a candidate in the 2016 General Election in Cork North-Central, but was not elected. He was a candidate in the 2019 Cork North-Central by-election, but was not elected. Gould was elected at the 2020 general election in Cork North Central. He received almost 27% of the first preference votes cast in the constituency. He was selected after Jonathan O'Brien had announced that he would not seek re-election. Mick Nugent was co-opted to Gould's seat on Cork City Council following his election to Dáil Eireann. In 2018, Gould claimed that the spending by Cork City Council for Prince Charles and Camilla was "overkill". In 2021, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Irish General Election
The 2020 Irish general election took place on Saturday 8 February, to elect the 33rd Dáil, the lower house of Ireland's parliament. The election was called following the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil by the president, at the request of the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, on 14 January 2020. The members, Teachtaí Dála (TDs), were elected by single transferable vote in multi-seat constituencies. It was the first election since 1918 to be held on a weekend. The election was an unprecedented three-way race, with the three largest parties each winning a share of the vote between 20% and 25%. Fianna Fáil finished with 38 seats (including one TD returned automatically as outgoing Ceann Comhairle). Sinn Féin made significant gains; it received the most first-preference votes, and won 37 seats, the party's best result since 1923. Fine Gael, the governing party led by Varadkar, came third both in seats (35) and in first-preference votes. International news outlets have described the res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cork North-Central (Dáil Constituency)
Cork North-Central is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 4 deputies ( Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). History and boundaries The constituency was created under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1980 and first used at the 1981 general election, taking in parts of the former Cork City and Cork Mid constituencies. It is a mixed urban-rural constituency made up of the Cork North Central, Cork North East and Cork North West local electoral areas of Cork City north of the River Lee, and much of the Blarney local electoral area of County Cork. TDs Elections 2020 general election 2019 by-election A by-election was held in the constituency on 29 November 2019, to fill the seat vacated by Billy Kelleher on his election to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Politicians In Ireland
Independent politicians, who contest elections without the support of one of the political parties, have played a continuous role in the politics of Ireland since independence in 1922. Provision for independents in electoral law If a candidate is not the candidate of a registered political party, they may be nominated for elections to Dáil Éireann with the assent of 30 electors in the constituency, for elections to the European Parliament with the assent of 60 electors in the constituency, and for local elections with the assent of 15 electors in the local electoral area. They may choose to have the designation non-party next to their name on the ballot paper. In Seanad elections and presidential elections, candidates are not nominated by parties directly, and party labels do not appear on the ballot. Independents supporting governments In the case of minority governments, where the party or parties forming the government do not have a majority in the Dáil, they will usual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris O'Leary
Chris O'Leary is an Irish Sinn Féin politician. He was formerly a Cork City Councillor and Lord Mayor of Cork. With a background in community development projects, in 2002 he was co-opted into the council to replace his Green Party colleague Dan Boyle who had been elected a TD. O'Leary left the Green Party in 2009, and was an independent councillor prior to joining Sinn Féin in 2010. He became Lord Mayor of Cork in June 2015, in the second year of a D'Hondt method rotation agreed for the office in 2014. He was Lord Mayor of Cork from June 2015 to June 2016, when he was replaced by Fine Gael politician Des Cahill. In the 2019 Irish local elections The 2019 Irish local elections were held in all local authorities in Ireland on Friday, 24 May 2019, on the same day as the 2019 European Parliament election and a referendum easing restrictions on divorce. Each local government area is divid ..., O'Leary was not reelected, one of two Sinn Féin councillors to lose seats on Cor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán Martin
Seán Martin is a Fianna Fáil Councillor on Cork City Council representing the Cork City South Central Local Electoral Area. He was co-opted to the Council in July 1997 to the seat vacated by his brother, Micheál, following his Ministerial appointment after the 1997 Irish general election. Seán Martin retained his seat in the 1999 Irish local elections and at each subsequent election. He works with the ESB and served as Lord Mayor of Cork The Lord Mayor of Cork ( ga, Ard-Mhéara Chathair Chorcaí) is the honorific title of the Chairperson ( ga, Cathaoirleach) of Cork City Council which is the local government body for the city of Cork (city), Cork in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. ... from 2004 to 2005. As of 2021, Martin is the leader of Fianna Fáil on Cork City Council and serves on several committees of the council. He represents Cork City Council on the board of the Association of Irish Local Government, the Cork Education and Training Board (ETB) and Cork Film Festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
