• election to all 45 seats on the council of Dublin Corporation took place on 7 June 1979 as part of the 1979 Irish local elections. The city of Dublin...
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    The 1979 Irish local elections were held in all the counties, cities and towns of Ireland on Thursday, 7 June 1979, on the same day as the first direct...
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    An election to Dublin City Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 52 councillors were elected from twelve local...
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  • Tony Gregory (category Alumni of University College Dublin)
    elected at the 1979 Dublin Corporation election as a "Dublin Community Independent" candidate. At the February 1982 general election he was elected to...
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    Dublin (/ˈdʌblɪn/ ; Irish: Baile Átha Cliath, pronounced [ˈbˠalʲə aːhə ˈclʲiə] or [ˌbʲlʲaː ˈclʲiə]) is the capital of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of...
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  • and sit on the council. Dublin Corporation (now Dublin City Council) becomes the new municipal authority for the city of Dublin. Daniel O'Connell was elected...
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    Bertie Ahern (category Alumni of Dublin Institute of Technology)
    created Dublin Finglas constituency and was elected with transfers from other candidates. He was elected at the 1979 Dublin Corporation election for the...
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    Michael McDowell (politician) (category Alumni of University College Dublin)
    politics, initially as a member of Fine Gael. He contested the 1979 Dublin Corporation election, coming 5th in the 4-seat Area 10 (Mansion House/Pembroke)...
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    road-widening schemes by Dublin Corporation ran through some old areas of the inner city around Christ Church Cathedral. In 1979 Dublin Corporation developed an office...
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  • of Corporation of Dún Laoghaire. At the 1991 local election, the electoral counties of Dublin–Belgard and Dublin–Fingal were renamed as South Dublin and...
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  • Thomas Stafford (Irish politician) (category Lord mayors of Dublin)
    Dublin Corporation from 1955 to 1979, and served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1967 to 1968. He was born in Gorey, County Wexford, and moved to Dublin...
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    George Birmingham (category Politicians from County Dublin)
    at the 1979 Dublin Corporation election, topping the poll in the Raheny ward. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1981 general election as a Fine...
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    by the Irish Army. The decision to build the monument was taken by Dublin Corporation in the euphoria following Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar...
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    Judicial County of Dublin, including Dublin Circuit Court, the Dublin County Registrar and the Dublin Metropolitan District Court. Dublin also sees law enforcement...
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    Ali Hewson (category Alumni of University College Dublin)
    was awarded a degree in politics and sociology from University College Dublin (UCD) in 1989. The couple have four children together and live at residences...
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    A by-election was held in the Dáil Éireann constituency of Dublin Bay South in Ireland on Thursday, 8 July 2021, to fill the vacancy left by the resignation...
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  • The city of Dublin can trace its origin back more than 1,000 years, and for much of this time it has been Ireland's principal city and the cultural, educational...
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    council meetings take place in City Hall. Dublin Corporation itself was renamed in the early 21st century as Dublin City Council, previously the name of the...
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    Wood Quay (category Archaeological sites in County Dublin)
    Bridge (formerly Richmond Bridge) named after the 19th century Fenian. Dublin Corporation acquired Wood Quay gradually from the 1950s, having voted on the plans...
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    John Podesta (category People associated with the 2016 United States presidential election)
    www.dublin.k12.ca.us. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 5, 2017. Utsumi, Michael (October 26, 2016). "Dublin School...
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    Charles Haughey (category Alumni of University College Dublin)
    a local councillor, being a member of Dublin Corporation from 1953 to 1955. Haughey's first attempt at election to Dáil Éireann came in June 1951, when...
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  • Parachute candidate (category Elections)
    in Dublin Central. Catherine Noone stood for Fine Gael in Dublin West at the 2016 general election; she later attempted to be "parachuted" in Dublin South-West...
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    Leo Varadkar (category Alumni of Trinity College Dublin)
    general election, saying that he wished to "explore new options and opportunities". Born on 18 January 1979, in the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Varadkar...
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    Peter Snow (category People from Artane, Dublin)
    election analyst and co-presenter in the live General Election results programmes for many years, first at ITN for five General Elections (1966–1979)...
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    her marriage. She wrote the 1979 book Beyond Reason about her marriage.[citation needed] On the eve of the 1979 election, in which Pierre Trudeau's party...
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    the United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough and the cathedral of the ecclesiastical province of the United Provinces of Dublin and Cashel in the (Anglican)...
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  • Dublin City University (abbreviated as DCU) (Irish: Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath) is a university based on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. Created...
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    Michael Mainelli (category Alumni of Trinity College Dublin)
    including a year studying engineering and mathematics at Trinity College Dublin (1980/81). Mainelli later completed an MPhil (1997) and PhD (2004) at the...
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    Tomás Mac Giolla (category Lord mayors of Dublin)
    Giolla was elected to Dublin City Council representing the Ballyfermot local electoral area in 1979 and at every subsequent local election until he retired...
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    chain, SuperValu. A controversial development was at Wood Quay by the Dublin Corporation in the late 1970s, when there were many archaeological Viking finds...
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