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NEVER underestimate the Fianna Fáil vote in Tralee was one of the lessons learnt last weekend, with the party retaining their two seats on the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council. While Cllr Mikey Sheehy was expected to coast back in, many questioned if first-time candidate Anne O’Sullivan would […]

FOR Angie Baily, it was long wait until she was officially confirmed as elected as a councillor to the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council. The teacher, originally from Rathanny in Ballymac, was certain to get the sixth seat even after Thomas McEllistrim requested a recount in the early […]

SO it’s all over for another five years. The John Mitchels GAA Complex hosted the counts for the Tralee, Listowel, Corca Dhuibhne and Castleisland electoral areas, to decide which councillors would take their seats on the Council for the next term and there was no shortage of drama throughout the […]

AN exhausting weekend spilled into Monday to decide the outcome of the election of councillors to the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council. After the 14th count was completed in the early hours of Monday, the gap between Anne O’Sullivan of Fianna Fáil and Independent candidate Thomas McEllistrim was […]

FIRST-TIME candidate Anne O’Sullivan of Fianna Fáil looked to clinch the final seat after the 14th and final count in the Tralee Local Electoral Area, but her celebrations will have to be put on hold as Independent candidate Thomas McEllistrim has requested a full recount. The result was announced just […]

FINE Gael candidate Angie Baily is certain to be elected to the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council after the results of the 13th count were announced at John Mitchels GAA Complex this morning. The Ballymac native gained 38 votes from Paul Daly’s surplus to put her on 1,518 votes, […]

FIRST-TIME candidate Paul Daly and  sitting Cllr Sam Locke were elected to the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council in the early hours of this Monday morning. There were scenes of elation after the 12th count as the two exceeded the quota and were elected after a long day […]

THE race to fill those four remaining seats in the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council is really hotting up now after the result of the tenth count was announced. The count saw the distribution of the Green Party candidate Anluan Dunne’s 899 votes with Fine Gael’s Angie Baily […]

THE Tralee Electoral Area ninth count has taken place in the John Mitchels GAA Complex and candidates are moving closer to those four remaining seats in the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council. While the eighth count consisted of the distribution of the surplus of Cllr Deirdre Ferris amounting […]

THERE’S still a way to go in the Tralee Electoral Area before the four remaining seats are filled in the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council. The seventh count consisted of the distribution of the 590 votes of Jacob Sweeney of The National Party, but candidates are still a […]

AFTER the Tralee Electoral Area sixth count there were no further candidates elected to the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council. The count consisted of the distribution of the 471 votes of Mistura Oyebanji of the Social Democrats but it couldn’t elevate any of the candidates over the quota […]

THE fourth count in the Tralee Electoral Area did not see any further candidates elected to the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council this afternoon, but Sinn Féin candidate Cllr Deirdre Ferris could make it over the line on the next one. The count consisted of the distribution of […]

SITTING Labour Cllr and Mayor of Tralee, Terry O’Brien, became the second candidate to be elected to the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council this afternoon at the John Mitchels GAA Complex where the count is taking place. He received 84 votes from his fellow Labour candidate Ben Slimm […]

THE results of the second count in the Tralee Electoral Area, announced just before 1.30pm, failed to elect any further candidates, but Cllr Terry O’Brien is within touching distance. The count saw the distribution of Cllr Mikey Sheehy’s surplus of 426 votes. Cllr O’Brien got 100 of those which now […]

FIANNA Fáil’s Mikey Sheehy topped the poll in the Tralee Electoral Area to retain his seat on the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council. The results of the first count were revealed at the count centre at the John Mitchels GAA Complex  this afternoon and could see Sinn Féin […]

SITTING councillors Deirdre Ferris of Sinn Féin and Mikey Sheehy of Fianna Fáil look like retaining their seats on the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council, going by th tallies this afternoon. All 52 of the Tralee Local Electoral Area boxes have been opened and the tallies show Sheehy […]