County Offaly is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the province of Leinster. It is named after the ancient Kingdom of UíFailghe. It was formerly known as King's County,in honour of Philip II of Spain. Offaly County Council is the local authority for the county. The county population was 82,668 at the 2022 census.
Tullamore is the county town of County Offaly in Ireland. It is on the Grand Canal,in the middle of the county,and is the fourth most populous town in the midlands region,with 14,607 inhabitants at the 2016 census.
Clara is a town on the River Brosna in County Offaly and is the 10th largest town in the midlands of Ireland. The town had a population of 3,336 as of the 2016 census. Clara's local services include churches,banks,credit union,schools,supermarkets,shops,garages,pubs,nightclubs and restaurants. It has its own Garda (police) and fire station while the Midlands Regional Hospital is located approximately eleven kilometres away in Tullamore.
Laois–Offaly is a parliamentary constituency which is represented in Dáil Éireann,the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 5 deputies on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). It was previously a constituency from 1921 to 2016.
Kildare South is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann,the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 4 deputies on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Paul Nicholas Gogarty is an Irish Independent politician who has served as a South Dublin County Councillor for Lucan since May 2014. He was previously a member of the Green Party,and served as a Green Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Mid-West constituency from 2002 to 2011.
South is a constituency of the European Parliament in Ireland. It elects 5 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Tipperary is a parliamentary constituency that has been represented in Dáil Éireann,the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas,since the 2016 general election. The constituency elects 5 deputies on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). A constituency of the same name existed between 1923 and 1948.
Pearse Daniel Doherty is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal constituency since the 2016 general election,and previously a TD for the Donegal South-West constituency from 2010 to 2016. He also previously served as a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from 2007 to 2010.
People Before Profit is a Trotskyist political party formed in October 2005,active in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Barry Cowen is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Laois–Offaly constituency since the 2020 general election,and previously from 2011 to 2016 and from 2016 to 2020 for the Offaly constituency. He previously served as Minister for Agriculture,Food and the Marine from June to July 2020.
An election to Offaly County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 19 councillors were elected from three electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office,a reduction of 2 seats from the previous election in 2009. In addition Birr Town Council,Edenderry Town Council and Tullamore Town Council were all abolished.
Renua Ireland,commonly called Renua,is a fringe political party in Ireland. The party was launched on 13 March 2015,with former Fine Gael TD Lucinda Creighton as founding leader. Prior to its launch it had used the slogan Reboot Ireland. The name Renua is intended to suggest both the English Renew and the Irish RéNua "New Era".
The Social Democrats are a centre-left,social-democratic political party in Ireland. The party was launched on 15 July 2015 by three independent TeachtaíDála,Catherine Murphy,and Róisín Shortall,and Stephen Donnelly. It promotes the Nordic model and pro-European views.
The Irish Democratic Party (IDP) was a minor Irish political party formed in 2013,as a result of a split with Direct Democracy Ireland. Another minor party of the same name but different ideology and leadership had been established in 2010 but was later dissolved.
Carol Nolan is an Irish Independent politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Laois–Offaly constituency since the 2020 general election,and previously from 2016 to 2020 for the Offaly constituency.
An Offaly County Council election was held in County Offaly in Ireland on 24 May 2019 as part of that year's local elections. All 19 councillors were elected for a five-year term of office from 3 local electoral areas (LEAs) by single transferable vote. The 2018 LEA boundary review committee made no changes to the LEAs used in the 2014 elections.
Pippa Hackett is an Irish Green Party politician who has served as a Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture,Food and the Marine since June 2020. She is one of three Ministers of State in attendance at cabinet,but without a vote. She has been a Senator for the Agricultural Panel since November 2019.
Violet-Anne Wynne is an Irish Independent politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Clare constituency since the 2020 general election. Elected as a Sinn Féin member,she became an independent in February 2022.
Martin Browne is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary constituency since the 2020 general election. Browne is the Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Public Petitions. A native of Cashel,he was elected as a member of Tipperary County Council in 2014 for the Cashel—Tipperary local electoral area,serving for 5 years before losing his seat.
