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2014 Meath County Council Election
An election to Meath County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 40 councillors were elected from six electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office, an increase of 11 seats from 2009. Fine Gael remained the largest party, and gained 2 seats when compared to 2009, despite having a lower first preference vote than Fianna Fáil. The party was somewhat insulated by the additional seats allocated to Meath. While Fianna Fáil was the largest party in terms of vote share running too many candidates and transfer leakage, in LEAs like Kells, Ratoath and Trim in particular, saw the party miss out on potential additional seats. By contrast Sinn Féin were the major winners in the elections as the party returned a team of 8 to the new Council. Independents gained 4 additional seats, including Nick Killian, a former Fianna Fáil councillor. Labour lost all of their 4 Council seats in a testament to the anti-Government sentiment. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Meath County Council Election
An election to Meath County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 29 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 Single transferable vote (STV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which voters cast a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to alternate ... (PR-STV). Results by party Results by local electoral area Dunshaughlin Kells Navan Slane Trim External links Official website {{2009 Irish local elections Meath Meath County Council elections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Meath County Council Election
A Meath County Council election was held in County Meath in Ireland on 24 May 2019 as part of that year's local elections. All 40 councillors were elected for a five-year term of office from 6 local electoral areas (LEAs) by single transferable vote. The 2018 LEA boundary review committee kept the LEAs used in the 2014 elections, with some boundary adjustments necessitated by population shifts revealed by the 2016 census. The changes were enacted by statutory instrument (S.I.) 628/2018, which was later amended by S.I. No. 8/2019. Fine Gael lost 1 seat but remained the largest party with 12 seats overall but with an increased vote share. Fianna Fáil gained 2 seats overall to return with 12 seats also but their vote share reduced compared to 2014. Sinn Féin had a very poor election losing 5 seats overall and being reduced to having representation solely in Ashbourne, Kells and Navan. One of the Sinn Féin losses in Navan was to Emer Tóibín, a sister of Peadar Tóibín TD. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meath County Council
Meath County Council ( ga, Comhairle Chontae na Mí) is the authority responsible for local government in County Meath, 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 40 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, Jackie Maguire. The county town is Navan. History Meath County Council commissioned a purpose-built headquarters at Railway Street in Navan in the early 20th century. It then moved to more modern facilities at the new County Hall on the Dublin Road in Navan in 2017. Local Electoral Areas and Municipal Districts Meath County Council is divided into the following municipal districts and local electoral a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fine Gael
Fine Gael (, ; English: "Family (or Tribe) of the Irish") is a liberal-conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Ireland. Fine Gael is currently the third-largest party in the Republic of Ireland in terms of members of Dáil Éireann and largest in terms of Irish members of the European Parliament. The party has a membership of 25,000 in 2021. Leo Varadkar succeeded Enda Kenny as party leader on 2 June 2017 and as Taoiseach on 14 June; Kenny had been leader since 2002, and Taoiseach since 2011. Fine Gael was founded on 8 September 1933 following the merger of its parent party Cumann na nGaedheal, the National Centre Party and the Army Comrades Association. Its origins lie in the struggle for Irish independence and the pro-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War, with the party claiming the legacy of Michael Collins. In its early years, the party was commonly known as ''Fine Gael – The United Ireland Party'', abbreviated ''UIP'', and its official title in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Party (Ireland)
The Labour Party ( ga, Páirtí an Lucht Oibre, literally "Party of the Working People") is a centre-left and social-democratic political party in the Republic of Ireland. Founded on 28 May 1912 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, by James Connolly, James Larkin, and William O'Brien as the political wing of the Irish Trades Union Congress, it describes itself as a "democratic socialist party" in its constitution. Labour continues to be the political arm of the Irish trade union and labour movement and seeks to represent workers' interests in the Dáil and on a local level. Unlike many other Irish political parties, Labour did not arise as a faction of the original Sinn Féin party, although it incorporated Democratic Left in 1999, a party that traced its origins back to Sinn Féin. The party has served as a partner in coalition governments on eight occasions since its formation: seven times in coalition either with Fine Gael alone or with Fine Gael and other smaller parties, an ... [...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 usu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Irish Local Elections
The 2014 Irish local elections were held in all local government areas of the Republic of Ireland on Friday, 23 May 2014, on the same day as the European Parliament election and two by-elections ( Dublin West and Longford–Westmeath). The poll in the Ballybay–Clones LEA on Monaghan County Council was deferred due to the death of a candidate. Overview These elections took place after the coming into force of the Local Government Reform Act 2014, under which city and county councils were contested under substantially redrawn local electoral area (LEA) boundaries, including an overall increase of seats to 949, up from 883 in the 2009 local elections. It also saw the abolition of borough and town councils. New municipal districts were created within most counties. Generally, a municipal district contains one LEA, though a few districts around larger urban areas contain multiple LEAs. The elections took place a little over three years after the last general election, which l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 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 B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Sheridan (Gaelic Footballer)
Joe Sheridan is an Irish Gaelic footballer. He plays with the Seneschalstown club and the Meath county team. He was part of the Meath team that made it to the 2002 All-Ireland Minor Championship Final but lost out to Derry. He made headlines for scoring a controversial and illegal late goal in the 2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final. The goal stood and Meath got a 1-12 to 1-10 win over Louth. He won Meath Senior Football Championship medals in 2007 and 2009 with Seneschalstown. In March 2012, Sheridan quit the Meath panel due to work commitments in Boston. A month later it was announced that Sheridan was returning to the Meath panel in time for the championship 2012. Meath manager Mick O'Dowd axed him at the end of 2013. In December 2019, he was named as a Meath under-20 county team selector under the management of Ger Robinson. Personal life Through his association with Fianna Fáil he has met Elizabeth II and Michelle Obama. Sheridan supported the No V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John V
John V may refer to: * Patriarch John V of Alexandria or John the Merciful (died by 620), Patriarch of Alexandria from 606 to 616 * John V of Constantinople, Patriarch from 669 to 675 * Pope John V (685–686), Pope from 685 to his death in 686 * John V of Jerusalem, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem in 706–735 * John V the Historian or Hovhannes Draskhanakerttsi, Catholicos of Armenia from 897 to 925 * John V of Gaeta (1010–1040) * John V of Naples (died 1042), Duke from 1036 to 1042 * John V, Count of Soissons, (1281–1304) * John V, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel (1302–1317) * John V Palaiologos (1332–1391), Byzantine Emperor from 1341 * John V, Count of Sponheim-Starkenburg (1359–1437), German nobleman * John V, Lord of Arkel (1362–1428) * John V, Duke of Brittany (1389–1442), Count of Montfort * John V, Duke of Mecklenburg (1418–1443) * John V, Count of Hoya (died 1466), nicknamed ''the Pugnacious'' or ''the Wild'' * John V, Count of Armagnac ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Cassells
Shane Cassells (born 6 April 1978) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as a Senator for the Labour Panel since April 2020. He previously served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Meath West constituency from 2016 to 2020. Before being elected as a TD, Cassells worked for the ''Fingal Independent'' as a sports journalist, and with publishing house Devlin Media. He is a nephew of footballer Joe Cassells and of Peter Cassells, former head of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. Cassells was first elected to Navan City Council in 1999, and was a member of Meath County Council from 2004 to 2016, serving as Mayor of Navan twice. He contested the 2005 Meath by-election for Fianna Fáil but was not elected. He contested the 2011 Irish general election in the Meath West constituency, but again was not elected. He was elected on his third attempt at the 2016 general election, and his seat was considered to be safe, but he lost his seat at the 2020 general election, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Fitzgerald (politician)
Brian Fitzgerald (born 22 March 1947) is an Irish politician. He was a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Meath constituency from 1992 to 1997, and since 1999 has been an independent member of Meath County Council. Career Previously a SIPTU trade union official, Fitzgerald was elected to Dáil Éireann for Meath during the swing to Labour at the 1992 general election. He had contested the seat unsuccessfully at the November 1982 and 1989 general elections. Like many other Labour TDs elected in 1992, he lost his seat at the 1997 general election. His seat was taken by John V. Farrelly of Fine Gael whom he had defeated in 1992. Fitzgerald was an opponent of the Labour Party's decision to merge with Democratic Left and resigned from the party in 1999. He was re-elected to Meath County Council, as an independent councillor for the Dunshaughlin local electoral area A local electoral area (LEA; ga, Toghlimistéir Áitiúil) is an electoral area for elections to l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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