Dublin City Council is the local authority of the city of Dublin in Ireland. As a city council,it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. Until 2001,the authority was known as Dublin Corporation. The council is responsible for public housing and community,roads and transportation,urban planning and development,amenity and culture and environment. The council has 63 elected members and is the largest local council in Ireland. Elections are held every five years and are by single transferable vote. The head of the council has the honorific title of Lord Mayor. The city administration is headed by a chief executive,Richard Shakespeare. The council meets at City Hall,Dublin.
Belfast City Council is the local authority with responsibility for part of Belfast,the largest city of Northern Ireland. The council serves an estimated population of 348,005 (2022),the largest of any district council in Northern Ireland,while being the smallest by area. Belfast City Council is the primary council of the Belfast Metropolitan Area,a grouping of six former district councils with commuter towns and overspill from Belfast,containing a total population of 579,276.
Kathleen Clarke was a founder member of Cumann na mBan,a women's paramilitary organisation formed in Ireland in 1914,and one of very few privy to the plans of the Easter Rising in 1916. She was the wife of Tom Clarke and sister of Ned Daly,both of whom were executed for their part in the Rising. She was subsequently a Teachta Dála (TD) and Senator with both Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil,and the first female Lord Mayor of Dublin (1939–1941).
Bronwen Maher is a former member of Dublin City Council who represented the Clontarf electoral area. She was elected as a Green Party councillor in 2004 on her third attempt. She was elected Deputy Lord Mayor of Dublin in June 2005,and elected Chairman of the Dublin Regional Authority 2007–2008. She is a former member of the Irish Green Party.
Emer Anne Costello is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 2012 to 2014,Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2009 to 2010 and a Dublin City Councillor for the North Inner City area from 2003 to 2012.
Mary Freehill is a former Dublin City Councillor,who served as the Lord Mayor of Dublin during the Millennium year from 5 July 1999 to 3 July 2000. She was a Labour Party councillor on Dublin City Council from 1977 to 2024.
Vincent B. Jackson is an Irish independent politician who has served as a Dublin City Councillor since May 1991. He previously served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from June 2006 to June 2007.
Andrew Montague is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2011 to 2012 and a Dublin City Councillor from 2004 to 2019.
Duncan Stewart is an Irish architect,environmentalist and media personality known for his environmental activism and work on RTÉ,most notably in the show Eco Eye since 2002. He secured his primary degree from UCD. His niece,Louise Morris from Wales is often credited as being the influence for his pursuit in the fight against climate change. He remains the co-presenter of Eco Eye on RTE.
An election to all 63 seats on Dublin City Council was held on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections. The city of Dublin was divided into nine local electoral areas to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Paul McAuliffe is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-West constituency since the 2020 general election. He previously served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2019 to 2020.
An election to all 63 seats on Dublin City Council took place on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. Dublin was divided into 11 local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action to mitigate the effects of human-caused climate change.
Hazel Chu is an Irish Green Party politician who has been a member of Dublin City Council since May 2019. She was elected Cathaoirleach (chairperson) of the Irish Green Party in December 2019,and was succeeded by Senator Pauline O'Reilly in December 2021. She was the first Irish-born person of Chinese descent elected to political office on the island of Ireland. She served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2020 to 2021,and in doing so became the first person of Chinese ethnicity to be mayor of a European capital.
Neasa Hourigan is an Irish Green Party politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Central constituency since the 2020 general election. She was Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight from September 2020 until being suspended from the parliamentary party in March 2023.
Patrick Costello is an Irish Green Party politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency since the 2020 general election.
Rebecca Moynihan is an Irish Labour Party politician who has been a Senator for the Administrative Panel since April 2020.
A by-election was held in the Dáil Éireann constituency of Dublin Bay South in Ireland on Thursday,8 July 2021,to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of the Fine Gael TD Eoghan Murphy. The by-election was won by Senator Ivana Bacik of the Labour Party.
Rabharta,previously An Rabharta Glas –Green Left,is a minor Irish political party,launched on 5 June 2021 as a split from the Green Party. At launch,it had two councillors,who had previously been elected as Green Party members —Lorna Bogue,on Cork City Council,and Liam Sinclair,on South Dublin County Council. As of June 2024,it has no elected representation. Its outlook has been described as "eco-socialist".
Alison Gilliland is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2021 to 2022.
