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    An election to Sligo 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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    Sligo County Council (Irish: Comhairle Chontae Shligigh) is the local authority of County Sligo, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local...
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    of Connacht. Sligo is the administrative capital and largest town in the county. Sligo County Council is the local authority for the county. The population...
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    Sligo (/ˈslaɪɡoʊ/ SLY-goh; Irish: Sligeach [ˈʃl̠ʲɪɟəx], meaning 'abounding in shells') is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo, Ireland...
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  • Thumbnail for 1979 Sligo County Council election
    An election to Sligo County Council took place on 7 June 1979 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 24 councillors were elected from four local...
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    An election to Sligo County Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of the Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from five local electoral...
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    the counties of Donegal to the north, Fermanagh to the north-east, Cavan to the east, Longford to the south, Roscommon to the south-west and Sligo to the...
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  • (Lower Connacht) until the creation of County Sligo by the English Lord Deputy Henry Sidney in 1561. The name Sligo is a corruption of the Irish name Sligeach...
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    was set up in 1974 and contested local elections to Sligo County Council and Dáil Éireann elections for the Sligo–Leitrim constituency. The group stood...
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    railway lines in County Fermanagh connected Enniskillen railway station with Derry from 1854, Dundalk from 1861, Bundoran from 1868 and Sligo from 1882. The...
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    An election to Sligo County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from five local...
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    the constituencies of Sligo–North Leitrim and Roscommon–South Leitrim from 2007 to 2016. Each county, city, and city and county is divided into local...
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    Eamon Scanlon (category Members of Sligo County Council)
    Fianna Fáil and was the Director of Elections for Matt Brennan. He was a member of Sligo County Council from 1991 to 2003, representing the Ballymote...
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  • town in 2005, advocated "Sligo gaining city status similar to Limerick, Galway and Waterford." The town council and county council held meetings to plan...
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    nineteenth century held over 30,000 acres (120 km2) in north County Roscommon and County Sligo. Rockingham House was designed by John Nash in the early 19th...
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    Declan Bree (category Members of Sligo County Council)
    first elected to Sligo Corporation and Sligo County Council in 1974 and has retained his seat on both authorities at each subsequent election (the former was...
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    West Cavan was within the constituency of Sligo–Leitrim. For elections to the European Parliament, the county is part of the Midlands–North-West constituency...
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  • Alderman (redirect from County Alderman)
    of a borough or county council, a council member chosen by the elected members themselves rather than by popular vote, or a council member elected by...
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    Takoma Park, Maryland (category Cities in Montgomery County, Maryland)
    mid-rise apartment buildings surrounding Sligo Creek, which cuts a deep valley through the community. The City Council adopted the Takoma Park Safe Grow Act...
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    south by County Galway; on the east by County Roscommon; and on the northeast by County Sligo. Mayo is the third-largest of Ireland's 32 counties in area...
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    Ireland's network of major roads. The N4 (M4) from Dublin to Sligo travels along the north of the county by-passing the towns of Leixlip, Maynooth and Kilcock...
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    Bundoran and Ballyshannon, which is part of the Sligo–Leitrim constituency. Historically, the county was represented in the Parliament of Ireland through...
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    single tier of town council, with five permitted to retain the title of borough council: the city of Kilkenny and the four towns of Sligo, Drogheda, Clonmel...
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    2nd Lord of Offaly, in battle at Credan in the north of what is now County Sligo in 1257 in which both were badly wounded – Fitzgerald immediately fatally...
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  • Joe McDonnell (hunger striker) (category Candidates in Dáil elections)
    as an Anti-H Block candidate in the 1981 general election in the Republic of Ireland for the Sligo–Leitrim constituency, receiving 5,639 votes and just...
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    Douglas Hyde (category Scholars and academics from County Sligo)
    originally from Castlehyde near Fermoy, County Cork, was Church of Ireland rector of Kilmactranny, County Sligo, from 1852 to 1867, and it was here that...
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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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  • County Sligo, in the west of Ireland. McMahon planted a bomb in Shadow V, a 27 feet (8.2 m) fishing boat owned by Mountbatten at Mullaghmore, County Sligo...
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    sectors. Mullingar lies near the national primary route N4, the main Dublin – Sligo road, 79 km (49 mi) from the capital. The N52 also connects Mullingar to...
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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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