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Cork South-West is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects three deputies ( Teachtaí Dála , commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
There have been North and South divisions of both the county and city as well as the complication that the Republic of Ireland ceased the division between borough and county constituencies in the 1970s. The modern North Dublin and South Dublin seem descended from the county rather than the city equivalents but the names commonly used do not ...
[3] 78.6% of the south-west's population (542,196 people), reside in County Cork. The remaining 21.4% (147,554 people) live in County Kerry. The remaining 21.4% (147,554 people) live in County Kerry. The southwest is the home of Munster Irish and contains a number of nationally significant Gaeltacht areas, such as Dingle , Cape Clear Island and ...
In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, County Cork was represented with two members. [1] Following the Acts of Union 1800 the county retained two parliamentary seats in the United Kingdom House of Commons.
O'Sullivan was co-opted onto Cork County Council in 2007, replacing his father, Christy O'Sullivan. He was subsequently re-elected in the 2009, 2014 and 2019 local elections. [5] He served as Mayor of Cork County Council from 2019 to 2020. [3] Deirdre Kelly was co-opted to O'Sullivan's seat on Cork County Council following his election to the ...
Cork West was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1923 to 1961. The constituency elected 5 (and later 3) deputies ( Teachtaí Dála , commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Cork Mid, North, South, South East and West was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1921 to 1923. The constituency elected 8 deputies ( Teachtaí Dála , commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, on the system of proportional representation by means of the single ...
Cork : The Rebel County [3] [18] [21] [22] Originally from Cork city's support for pretender Perkin Warbeck in 1495; reinforced by Cork's prominence in the Irish War of Independence (1919–21) and the Irish Civil War (1922–23) [21] [23] In 2011, Cork GAA's youth development section was rebranded as "Rebel Óg" (Irish óg = "young"). [24] Cork