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New Mayor of Tralee, Cllr Terry O’Brien with his two children Mark and Millie and wife Teresa. Photo by Gavin O’Connor.
A NEW Mayor of Tralee has been elected.
Cllr Terry O’Brien (Lab) took over this morning from Cllr Tom McEllistrim at the Tralee Municipal District AGM at Kerry County Council buildings.
His nomination was put forward by fellow Labour Party member, Cllr Graham Spring, and seconded by Cllr Jim Finucane.
Cllr Pa Daly of Sinn Fein nominated Cllr Sam Locke to be mayor, which was seconded by Cllr Locke himself.
Voting in favour of Cllr O’Brien were councillors, Graham Spring, Jim Finucane, Pat McCarthy, Norma Foley, Tom McEllistrim and Terry O’Brien. While Pa Daly and Sam Locke voted for Cllr Locke.
Cllr Finucane proposed Cllr Norma Foley as Deputy Mayor, which was seconded by Cllr Pat McCarthy.
Speaking in the aftermath of the election, the new town mayor highlighted housing and the old Denny factory site as two key areas he will be looking to make progress in for the year ahead.
Terry O’Brien is in his fourth term as a councillor having been first elected on to Tralee Town Council in 1999.
He is current chairman of the governing body of the ITT. In 2007 he was a Kerry North constituency general election candidate for the Labour Party.
