Father-of-three and Minister for State Dara Murphy will this spring be hoping to repeat his 2011 election success when he was elected on the 11th count in his first run for Leinster House. Before that he served as a Fine Gael councillor in Cork City and was elected mayor of the city in 2009. He represented Taoiseach John Bruton on the National Economic and Social Council. In his junior ministry he has special responsibility for data protection. He was criticised in September when he asked on-duty gardaí to drive him to Dublin Airport to catch an early morning flight to Brussels where he had an EU meeting.
| Electorate | Seats | Total Poll | Turnout | Valid Poll | Spoiled Votes | Quota |
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| 81,609 | 4 | 51,690 | 63.34% | 51,174 | 516 | 10,235 |
Vote Distribution
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Count Results
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5264 | 5718 | 5746 | 5800 | 5957 | 6008 | 6166 | 6250 | 6369 | 6403 | 9256 |
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On the Ballot
Labour candidate Kathleen Lynch is one of the party’s higherprofile TDs having served as Minister for State in the Department of Health. She was first elected to the Dáil in in a 1994 by-election where she represented Democratic Left. She later joined the Labour Party and won a seat in 2002 and has successfully defended the seat in the two proceeding elections.In her junior ministry, she has responsibility for Primary Care, Mental Health and Disability.
Fianna Fáil’s Billy Kelleher will seek to hold onto the Cork North Central seat he first won in 1997 and has defended since. He was a poll topper in 2007 when he took more than one-fifth of all first preference votes. This election will bring an added challenge as the former junior minister is also his party’s director of elections, following the decision of Pat Carey to step down from the role.In government, Deputy Kelleher, who studied agriculture and worked as a farmer, served as Minister for State with special responsibility for Trade and Commerce and as the Minister of State for Labour Affairs.
Sinn Féin’s Justice and Equality spokesman Jonathan O’Brien was the surprise ticket in Cork North Central in 2011 when he topped the poll having failed to take a seat in the two previous elections. He lives in Farranree on the north side of Cork City with his wife Gillian and their four children. He was first elected to the city council in 2000 and became leader of the Sinn Féin group in the council.Deputy O’Brien prides himself as a “keen sportsman” and is a director of Cork City football club who he has supported all his life. He is also outspoken on drug issues and has spoken publicly about his brother’s battle with drug addiction.
Mick Barry, a councillor for the area since 2004, is this year running as an Anti-Austerity Alliance candidate. He originally was a member of the Labour Party before joining the Workers' party. He has been active on the ant-water charges and bin charges
Oliver Moran is a software engineer and has established the Second Republic, a national campaign group in 2010. Originally from County Mayo, Moran joined the Green Party in 2009. In 2012, he was selected as the alternate representative from the Cork Green’s to the party’s National Council and a year later was selected as the Green Party Local Area Representative for the North-East ward of Cork city.
Councillor Thomas Gould runs alongside sitting Sinn Féin TD Jonathan O'Brien.Gould was first elected in 2009 and currently represents the Cork North Central ward on Cork City Council. Gould has a good recent electoral record after he topped the poll in the ward in last year's local elections.
Ted Tynan was elected to Cork City Council in 2009 having served a previous term on the council in the 1980s. The Ballyphehane native led the campaign against service charges and was among a number of householders who were jailed by Cork City Council in the 1990s on this issue.
Thomas Kiely is running for general election for the first time after he ran unsuccessfully in the 2014 local elections. A sheet metal fabricator by profession and has been involved with a number of anti-austerity protest groups.
Cork county councillor Ger Keohane (47) was elected on his first attempt following the 2014 local elections. A former member of Sinn Féin, the now Independent candidate left the party after failing in his bid to get a nomination to run alongside Jonathan O'Brien. He is involved with community organisations in his area, including the GAA and is campaigning on an anti-austerity platform.
A self-employed engineer in Cork City, Mick Murphy (55) is a former member of the Green Party and is campaigning on an anti-austerity and green platform. Having run unsuccessfully in a number of local elections, this is his first time running for a Dáil Éireann seat.
Julie O'Leary (25) is a first-time general election candidate and was a late addition to Fine Gael's Cork North-Central ticket. A barrister from Cork City, this is her first time running for election. Working in the areas of family law, immigration law and criminal law, Ms O'Leary believes that a focus on human rights should be part of the next Government's agenda. She also wants to see investment in Cork, so that those who live there do not have to leave the county looking for work.
A first time general election candidate, Paddy O'Leary is standing on behalf of Renua Ireland. Originally from Mayfield, he runs a small family business in Cork City and is involved with a number of sports organisations in his local area. He believes that a drastic change is needed to shake up Irish politics.
Co-founder of the unregistered political party Identity Ireland, Independent candidate Peter O'Loughlin is campaigning for a Dáil Éireann seat on a broadly anti-immigration, anti-EU platform. This will be the unemployed primary school teacher's third attempt at seeking election, having unsuccessfully contested the 2014 European election and the 2015 Carlow-Kilkenny by-election – where he won just 930 votes for Identity Ireland.