WOMEN
MEMBERS OF IRISH CITY AND BOROUGH COUNCILS
This
page lists women members of Ireland's five city and
six borough councils, and gives a gender breakdown
of each council from the last election in 2004. Dublin City council enjoys
the best gender balance while Waterford and Galway's voters returned the
smallest percentage of women city councillors. Tables 2a
and 2b give information on borough councillors.
The Observatory also has lists of women county councillors from the Republic
of Ireland.
A list of resignations and co-options of women councillors
since the 2004 local elections (as at August 2008) is available here.
Table
1a: Women members of Irish city councils elected 2004
|
Name
|
Party
|
Council/electoral
area
|
|
Catherine Byrne
|
Fine Gael
|
Dublin South West
Inner City
|
|
Maria Byrne
|
Fine Gael
|
Limerick No. 4
|
|
Deirdre Clune
|
Fine Gael
|
Cork South East
|
|
Niamh Cosgrove
|
Fine Gael
|
Dublin Donaghmede
|
|
Lucinda Creighton
|
Fine Gael
|
Dublin Pembroke
|
|
Patricia Gosch
|
Fine Gael
|
Cork North Central
|
|
Ann Marie Martin
|
Fine Gael
|
Dublin Crumlin/Kimmage
|
|
Mary O’Halloran
|
Fine Gael
|
Waterford No.3
|
|
Eibhlin Byrne
|
Fianna Fáil
|
Dublin Clontarf
|
|
Julia Carmichael
|
Fianna Fáil
|
Dublin Ballymun/Whitehall
|
|
Mary Fitzpatrick
|
Fianna Fáil
|
Dublin Cabra/Glasnevin
|
|
Deirdre Heney
|
Fianna Fáil
|
Dublin Clontarf
|
|
Mary Shields
|
Fianna Fáil
|
Cork South West
|
|
Ann Carter
|
Labour
|
Dublin Donaghmede
|
|
Catherine Clancy
|
Labour
|
Cork North Central
|
|
Catherine Connolly
|
Labour
|
Galway South
|
|
Colette Connolly
|
Labour
|
Galway West
|
|
Emer Costello
|
Labour
|
Dublin North Inner
City
|
|
Mary Freehill
|
Labour
|
Dublin Rathmines
|
|
Mary Murphy
|
Labour
|
Dublin Finglas
|
|
Wendy Hederman
|
Progressive Democrat
|
Dublin Pembroke
|
|
Terry O’Flaherty
|
Progressive Democrat
|
Galway East and North
|
|
Mairin Quill
|
Progressive Democrat
|
Cork North East
|
|
Annette Spillane
|
Sinn Féin
|
Cork North East
|
|
Bronwen Maher
|
Green
|
Dublin Clontarf
|
|
Joan Collins
|
Independent
|
Dublin Crumlin/Kimmage
|
|
Kathleen Leddin
|
Independent
|
Limerick No. 1
|
|
Mary Roche
|
Independent
|
Waterford No. 2
|
|
Lily Wallace
|
Independent
|
Limerick No. 3
|
Table
1b: City council election results by gender, 2004
|
City
|
Women
|
Men
|
% women
|
|
Cork
|
6
|
25
|
19
|
|
Dublin
|
15.
|
37
|
29
|
|
Galway
|
3
|
12
|
20
|
|
Limerick
|
3
|
12
|
20
|
|
Waterford
|
2
|
13
|
13
|
| Total |
29
|
101
|
22
|
Table
1c: Breakdown of city councillors by party and gender, 2004
|
Party
|
Women
|
Men
|
% women
|
|
Fianna Fáil
|
5
|
23
|
18
|
|
Fine Gael
|
8.
|
22
|
27
|
|
Labour
|
7
|
25
|
22
|
|
PDs
|
3
|
2
|
60
|
|
Greens
|
1
|
2
|
33
|
|
Sinn Féin
|
1
|
14
|
..7
|
|
Other
|
4
|
13
|
24
|
|
Total
|
29..
|
101.
|
22
|
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Table 2a: Women members of Irish
borough councils
Name
|
Party
|
Council
|
|
Siobhan Ambrose
|
Fianna Fáil
|
Clonmel
|
|
Rosaleen O’Grady
|
Fianna Fáil
|
Sligo
|
|
Betty Manning
|
Fine Gael
|
Kilkenny
|
|
Anna Fenlon
|
Fine Gael
|
Wexford
|
|
Marie Fitzpatrick
|
Fine Gael
|
Kilkenny
|
|
Philomena Roche
|
Fine Gael
|
Wexford
|
|
Veronica Cawley
|
Labour
|
Sligo
|
|
Anne Taylor
|
Labour
|
Clonmel
|
|
Phil Prendergast
|
Independent
|
Clonmel
|
Table
2b: Borough council election results by gender, 2004
|
Council
|
Women
|
Men
|
% women
|
|
Clonmel
|
3
|
..9
|
25
|
|
Drogheda
|
0
|
12
|
..0
|
|
Kilkenny
|
2
|
10
|
17
|
|
Sligo
|
2
|
10
|
17
|
|
Wexford
|
2
|
10
|
17
|
|
Total
|
9
|
51
|
15
|
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