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LAST UPDATE | 11 Jun 2024
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE JOHN Moran continues to hold the top spot in the Limerick mayoral election after the 11th count today.
Moran has maintained his lead over the second-place candidate Helen O’Donnell (Ind).
Tallies had predicted that Moran would lead after the first count and this proved correct when it was announced shortly after 5pm yesterday.
Moran managed to scoop 23% of the first preference vote among the 15 candidates, safely ahead of his next highest rival.
After the 11th count, which was announced just after 3pm today, Moran continues to lead with 24,958 votes.
O’Donnell is in second place with 19,353 votes.
Dee Ryan of Fianna Fáil is currently in third place with 18,875 votes.
Fine Gael’s Daniel Butler has been eliminated and his votes redistributed with Ryan being the main beneficiary.
State of the Poll after Count 11 - Mayor of Limerick Election:
— Limerick Council - Comhairle Luimnigh (@LimerickCouncil) June 11, 2024
-Dee Ryan - FF - EXCLUDED - Votes of 18,875 to be distributed.
More: https://t.co/FXrVa5q6XN #DEMLimerick #LimerickCount #Limerick pic.twitter.com/gnuqvlTOij
Sinn Féin’s Maurice Quinlivan came fifth overall in a performance that will be seen as disappointing both for him and for Sinn Féin.
While the constituency boundaries aren’t the same, Quinlivan got 24% of the vote to top the poll in the general election in Limerick City in 2020, whereas in he won just 10% of the vote of first preferences yesterday.
Moran, a former General Secretary at the Department of Finance, was the bookies’ favourite heading into the contest, and has a long association with the city.
As well as his high-profile stint in the Department of Finance, Moran was Ireland’s director on the European Investment Bank and was chair of the Land Development Agency.
With reporting from Jane Matthews and David Mac Redmond.
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And who pays the bill?
Half a story here on the journal
Tom Feely will pay in bitcoins
The €47k that the residents paid last year to Kildare Co Co in LPT would more than comfortably cover the cost of lighting and sewage…
With no street lights how will the kids ever know when it’s time to come in?
I heard the post was late in another estate today. Where’s the journal on that one? One would think someone in the journal lives in the above estate.
I think there’s a pothole being filled in Dingle today also.
Electricity for kilcock…. The future is now…..! Them swans in the canal must be delighted…!
No it’s not a “piss take” …
Yes a lot of ppl have no street lights at all…. The difference with this estate is there are street lights – which have been switched off without notice – why should the next estate have lights and not this one??
It is a built up town not two houses on a five mile country road! It needs lights for various reasons!
There are many estates like this which did not make the news – as no one bothered to stand up and make it happen!!
I’m sure the rate payers of Kildare will be happy.
This has to be a piss-take.
I’s hopes that youse can still see the stars ..lol lol
At last, some light at the end of the tunnel!
Such a relief
Um, what about the sewage plant? The maintenance of the lighting? Who will be paying to ensure services are maintained for the people living there?
The residents in the form of their Local property tax….. Its just a shame that the sheeple of Ireland are not prepared to stand up for what is their LEGAL rights.. When big Phil announced the LPT he justified it by saying it paid for street lighting. Chambers Park residents paid €47k last year in LPT, this would power the sewage system and pay for street lights for 3 YEARS.
You misunderstand, Pa. I was asking which body would be responsible, the local authority? The article never even touched on such questions.
As far as I can see, and your figures back it up, estate dwellers pay far more in LPT than they draw down.
Yet another reason that ghost estates should be treated more equitably.
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