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    An election to Laois County Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of the 1985 Irish local election. 25 councillors were elected from five local electoral...
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    Laois County Council (Irish: Comhairle Chontae Laoise) is the local authority of County Laois, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local...
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    "Laois Burial Grounds Survey 2011" (PDF). Laois County Council. 2011. Retrieved 18 September 2023. "Demographic context" (PDF). Offaly County Council Development...
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    An election to Laois County Council took place on 27 June 1991 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from five local...
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    County Laois, respectively. The abbreviation Co. is used, as in "Co. Roscommon". The counties in Dublin created in 1994 often drop the word county entirely...
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  • Oliver J. Flanagan (category Members of Laois County Council)
    Laois County Council, a position he would hold for almost forty-five years. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as an Independent TD for the Laois–Offaly...
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    five counties – Tipperary to the west, Waterford to the south, Carlow and Wexford to the east, and Laois to the north. Kilkenny city is the county's seat...
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    administrative county of County Carlow. That included the judicial county of Carlow and the part of County Laois (then called Queen's County) containing...
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  • Tom O'Higgins (category Politicians from County Cork)
    Irish general election O'Higgins moved from the Laois-Offaly constituency to the newly created Dublin County South, where he topped the poll. In April 1972...
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    Joan Collins (politician) (category Members of Dublin City Council)
    February 2012, she accompanied a collection of housing groups to Mountrath, County Laois, who successfully prevented the deputy sheriff and gardaí from evicting...
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    four of the 34 county or city councils, or themself, in the case of a former president who has served one term. Presidential elections are conducted under...
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    Houses of the Oireachtas (parliament), or at least four of the 31 county or city councils, or themselves, in the case of a former or retiring president who...
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    of the county. It has also been known as County Tyrconnell or Tirconaill (Tír Chonaill), after the historic territory. Donegal County Council is the local...
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    Ciaran Mullooly (category People from County Longford)
    from RTÉ in June 2021, he worked as a tourism activator for Longford County Council. Mullooly is a published author and has written three books. Mullooly...
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    Kildare and Laois to the north, Kilkenny to the west, Wicklow to the east and Wexford to the southeast. Carlow is known as "The Dolmen County", a nickname...
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    Results were announced by county councils and county borough corporations rather than by constituency. "Presidential and Local Elections Act 1945, Section 6"...
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    to stand in an Irish presidential election. Dana Rosemary Scallon received the nominations of five county councils: Donegal, Kerry, Longford, North Tipperary...
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    nominations: only North Tipperary County Council vote in his favour, and later reversed the decision; Wicklow County Council fell one vote short. O'Higgins'...
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  • Houses of the Oireachtas, or at least four of 31 councils of the administrative counties, including county boroughs. On 25 April, the Minister for Local...
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    candidate in the 1945 election and had served as a senator for Clann na Poblachta from 1948 to 1951, was nominated by two county councils only, short of the...
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    Ennis (redirect from Ennis, County Clare)
    word "Inis", meaning "island". This name relates to an island called Inis Laoi ("Calf Island") or Inis Cluana Rámhfhada ("island of the long rowing meadow")...
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    The 2011 Irish general election took place on Friday 25 February to elect 166 Teachtaí Dála across 43 constituencies to Dáil Éireann, the lower house of...
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    Willie O'Dea (category Members of Limerick County Council)
    but he was raised in Kilteely, County Limerick. He was educated at the Patrician Brothers College in Ballyfin, County Laois, and University College Dublin...
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    Dublin (redirect from Dublin, County Dublin)
    such as Drogheda and Dundalk in County Louth, Gorey in County Wexford, and extending as far as Portlaoise in County Laois, and once a day to Newry. One...
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  • elected council, leaving the manager to run its affairs until the next local elections. The split of Galway city from County Galway in 1985, and of County Dublin...
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    The 1990 Irish presidential election was the tenth presidential election to be held in Ireland, the fifth to be contested by more than one candidate, and...
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  • (Reorganisation) Act 1985: the borough of Galway (which previously had a 12-member borough council) ceased to be part of County Galway and became a county borough...
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  • Fáil won the election, forming its first government on 9 March 1932. It was in power for 61 of the 79 years between then and the election of 2011. Its...
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    2014, Cork County Council and Laois County Council passed motions for the cessation of water fluoridation. In Autumn 2014, Cork City Council, Dublin City...
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  • The current baby of the Legislative Council is Joephy Chan, who was elected in the 2021 Legislative Council election. From 1991 to 2016 the youngest elected...
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