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NOW that the dust has settled after a hectic weekend, the 33 councillors who will meet at Kerry County Council on June 7 has been decided.
Fianna Fáil is now the largest party with 10 seats, up one from the 2014 local elections. Fine Gael did not have a good day at the polls with just seven candidates elected, down two on 2014.
Sinn Féin are down one seat from 2014 with four candidates elected — two each in Tralee and Listowel. Labour still have two seats — although their second Tralee seat was lost, Marie Moloney won a seat back for the party in Killarney — while ten Independents took seats, up two from 2014.
Here’s who was elected;
Listowel (6)
FG (3) – Aoife Thornton, Mike Kennelly, Michael Foley
SF (2) – Tom Barry, Robert Beasley
FF (1) – Jimmy Moloney
Tralee (7)
FF (2) Norma Foley, Mikey Sheehy
SF (2) Toiréasa Ferris, Pa Daly
FG (1) Jim Finucane
Lab (1) Terry O’Brien
Ind (1) Sam Locke
Killarney (7)
Ind (5) Brendan Cronin, Maura Healy-Rae, Donal Grady, Michael Gleeson, Niall ‘Botty’ O’Callaghan
FF (1) Niall Kelleher
Lab (1) Marie Moloney
Castleisland (4)
Ind (2) Jackie Healy-Rae, Charlie Farrelly
FG (1) Bobby O’Connell
FF (1) Fionnán Fitzgerald
Corca Dhuibhne (3)
FF (2) Michael O’Shea, Breandán Fitzgerald
FG (1) Séamus Cosaí Fitzgerald
Kenmare (6)
FF (3) Michael Cahill, Norma Moriarty, John Francis Flynn
Ind (2) Johnny Healy-Rae, Dan McCarthy
FG (1) Patrick Connor-Scarteen
PARTY COMPOSITION:
FF (10)
Norma Foley, Mikey Sheehy, Michael O’Shea, Breandán Fitzgerald, Fionnán Fitzgerald, Niall Kelleher, Michael Cahill, Norma Moriarty, John Francis Flynn, Jimmy Moloney
IND (10)
Michael Gleeson, Brendan Cronin, Johnny Healy-Rae, Jackie Healy-Rae, Maura Healy-Rae, Niall ‘Botty’ O’Callaghan, Donal Grady, Sam Locke, Charlie Farrelly, Dan McCarthy
FG (7)
Patrick Connor-Scarteen, Seamus Cosaí Fitzgerald, Aoife Thornton, Mike Kennelly, Michael Foley, Bobby O’Connell, Jim Finucane
SF (4)
Tom Barry, Robert Beasley, Toiréasa Ferris, Pa Daly
LAB (2)
Terry O’Brien, Marie Moloney
