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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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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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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(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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general elections, Roscommon is mostly within the three-seat Dáil constituency of Roscommon–Galway, with a portion of the county in the Sligo–Leitrim...
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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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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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(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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City status in Ireland (section Sligo)
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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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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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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original on 2018-03-06. Retrieved 2019-06-07. "Sligo Today News for Sligo County - Killing of local TD in election recalled in new book". Archived from the...
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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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Marian Harkin (category Politicians from County Sligo)
politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Sligo–Leitrim constituency since the 2020 general election, and previously from 2002 to 2007. She previously...
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Tom Maguire (category Politicians from County Mayo)
standing in elections. (Despite this ban, IRA officers Seán Farrell (Leitrim–Sligo) and John Madden (Mayo North) contested the election, the latter successfully)...
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Ulster (section County-based sub-divisions)
sparking the Home Rule Crisis. In the last all Ireland election (1918 Irish general election) counties Donegal and Monaghan returned large Sinn Féin (nationalist)...
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Letterkenny (redirect from Letterkenny Town Council)
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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Gerry Reynolds (Irish politician) (category Members of Leitrim County Council)
at the 1997 general election but lost it again at the 2002 general election. He was a member of Leitrim County Council from 1985 to 2014. Families in...
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Sinn Féin (section Election results)
John Hume. By the beginning of 1985, Sinn Féin had won its first representation on local councils, owing to three by-election wins in Omagh (Seamus Kerr,...
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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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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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Imelda Henry (category Members of Sligo County Council)
Panel. and lost her seat at the following election in April 2016. She was a member of Sligo County Council from 2004 to 2011 for the Strandhill local...
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John Joe McGirl (category Members of Leitrim County Council)
elected as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for the Sligo–Leitrim constituency at the 1957 general election, topping the poll with 7,007 votes (15.7%). Running...
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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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Seán Doherty (Roscommon politician) (category Members of Roscommon County Council)
Doherty became a member of the Garda Síochána and served as a Detective in Sligo before joining the Special Branch in Dublin in the early 1970s. Doherty...
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councillor on Kerry County Council. It is registered to contest elections for Dáil Éireann and in Killarney for local elections. Republican Sinn Féin...
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David Trimble (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
Laws (LL.B). Trimble's paternal grandfather George was born in Easkey, County Sligo, to parents William Trimble and Mary Burns. Trimble qualified as a barrister...
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respectively, while both Joe McDonnell and Martin Hurson narrowly missed election in Sligo–Leitrim and Longford–Westmeath. Eamonn Sweeney noted that: Altogether...
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results and transfer of votes in respect of each county, and county borough council : and election statistics relating to all local authorities (PDF)...
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Joe Costello (politician) (category Politicians from County Sligo)
from politics. Costello was born in Geevagh, County Sligo and was educated at Summerhill College, Sligo, St Patrick's College, Maynooth and University...
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