Tipperary County Council

Tipperary County Council Comhairle Contae Thiobraid Árann
Type
Type	County council
Leadership
Cathaoirleach	Séamus Hanafin, FF
Structure
Seats	40

Political groups	Council Control (21) Fianna Fáil (10) Fine Gael (10) Labour Party (1) Council Opposition (19) Sinn Féin (5) WUAG (1) Independent (13)
Elections
Last election	23 May 2014
Meeting place
Civic Offices, Clonmel Civic Offices, Nenagh
Website
www.tipperarycoco.ie

The area governed by the council

Tipperary County Council (Irish: Comhairle Contae Thiobraid Árann) is the authority responsible for local government in County Tipperary, Ireland. It came into operation on 3 June 2014 after the 2014 local elections,^[1] after the merger of North Tipperary County Council and South Tipperary County Council under the provisions of the Local Government Reform Act 2014. The county administration is headed by a Chief Executive, Joe MacGrath. The administrative centres are Nenagh and Clonmel.

Councillors

The council has 40 seats. For the purpose of elections the county is divided into five Municipal Districts and five local electoral areas (LEA).^[2]

LEA	Seats	District
Carrick-on-Suir	6	Municipal District of Carrick-on-Suir
Cashel–Tipperary	7	Municipal District of Cashel–Tipperary
Clonmel	9	Borough District of Clonmel^†
Nenagh	9	Municipal District of Nenagh
Templemore–Thurles	9	Municipal District of Templemore–Thurles

^† A district associated with a city or borough is termed a metropolitan district or borough district respectively.

This list reflects the order in which councillors were elected on 23 May 2014.^[3]

Council members from 2014 election
Local electoral area	Name	Party
Carrick-on-Suir	David Dunne		Sinn Féin
	Imelda Goldsboro		Fianna Fáil
	Eddie O'Meara		Independent
	Louise McLoughlin		Fine Gael
	Kieran Bourke		Independent
	John Fahey		Fine Gael
Cashel–Tipperary	Michael Fitzgerald		Fine Gael
	Martin Browne		Sinn Féin
	Denis Leahy		Independent
	Mary Hourigan		Fine Gael
	John Crosse		Fine Gael
	Roger Kennedy		Fianna Fáil
	Tom Wood		Independent
Clonmel	Martin Lonergan		Independent
	Michael Murphy		Fine Gael
	Pat English		Workers and Unemployed Action
	Siobhán Ambrose		Fianna Fáil
	Andy Moloney		Independent
	Marie Murphy		Fine Gael
	Michael Anglim		Fianna Fáil
	Catherine Carey		Sinn Féin
	Richie Molloy		Independent
Nenagh	Joe Hannigan		Independent
	Seamus Morris		Sinn Féin
	Michael O'Meara		Independent
	John Carroll		Fianna Fáil
	Mattie Ryan		Fianna Fáil
	Phyll Bugler		Fine Gael
	Hughie McGrath		Independent
	Gerard Darcy		Fine Gael
	Fiona Bonfield		Labour Party
Templemore–Thurles	Michael Smith		Fianna Fáil
	Jim Ryan		Independent
	Seamus Hanafin		Fianna Fáil
	Micheál Lowry		Independent
	Willie Kennedy		Independent
	David Doran		Sinn Féin
	John Hogan		Fianna Fáil
	Jackie Cahill		Fianna Fáil
	Joe Bourke		Fine Gael

Date	Constituency		Gain		Loss	Note
2016-03-13 13 March 2016	Templemore - Thurles		Fianna Fáil		Fianna Fáil	Sean Ryan replaces Jackie Cahill upon his election to the Dáíl.^[4]
2016-04-11 11 April 2016	Templemore - Thurles		Independent		Independent	Eddie Moran replaces Willie Kennedy, who died in a road crash ^[5]

Local government in the Republic of Ireland

County councils	Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown Fingal Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Sligo South Dublin Tipperary Westmeath Wexford Wicklow

City councils	Cork Dublin Galway

City and County councils	Limerick Waterford

Acts	Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840 Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 Local Government Act 1925 Local Government (Dublin) Act 1993 Local Government Act 2001 Local Government Reform Act 2014

See also	Chief executive Municipal districts Regional Assemblies in Ireland

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