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(*31 CITY COUNCILS*) –>
(as of ’12 september 2018′)
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*CARLOW COUNTY*
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*DUN LAOGHAIRE-RATHDOWN COUNTY*
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*FINGAL COUNTY*
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*SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY*
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*KILDARE COUNTY*
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*KILKENNY COUNTY*
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*LAOIS COUNTY*
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*LONGFORD COUNTY*
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*LOUTH COUNTY*
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*MEATH COUNTY*
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*OFFALY COUNTY*
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*WESTMEATH COUNTY*
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*WEXFORD COUNTY*
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*WICKLOW COUNTY*
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*CLARE COUNTY*
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*CORK CITY*
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*CORK COUNTY*
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*KERRY COUNTY*
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*LIMERICK CITY + COUNTY*
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*WATERFORD CITY + COUNTY*
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*GALWAY CITY*
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*GALWAY COUNTY*
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*LEITRIM COUNTY*
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*ROSCOMMON COUNTY*
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*SLIGO COUNTY*
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*CAVAN COUNTY*
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*DONEGAL COUNTY*
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*MONAGHAN CITY*
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“from ‘cork’ to ‘county mayo’…”
“christoper countee”
“county council”
“…but who’s counting?”
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(“counting on christopher county…”)
(“careful there, christopher!”
(“christophers ‘last’ / ‘first’ words)
(add ‘911 911’ clips for ‘dramatic effect’)
(stay seated)
(‘county seats’)
(bonafide “black irish”)
(with ‘freckles’ to boot!)
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(in ‘ireland’, local government functions are mostly exercised by 31 local authorities, termed “county”, “city” or “city and county councils”)
(the ‘principal decision-making body’ in each of the ’31 local authorities’ is composed of the members of the ‘council’, elected by ‘universal franchise’ in ‘local elections’ every ‘5 years’)
(‘irish local authorities’ are the ‘closest’ and most ‘accessible’ form of ‘government’ to people in their ‘local community’)
(many of the authorities’ ‘statutory functions’ are, however, the responsibility of ‘ministerially appointed career officials’ termed ‘chief executives’)
(the ‘area’ under the ‘jurisdiction’ of each of the ‘authorities’ corresponds to the area of each of the 31 ‘local administrative units’ (aka ‘LAU 1) Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) areas for Eurostat purposes)
The competencies of the city and county councils include planning, transport infrastructure, sanitary services, public safety (notably fire services) and the provision of public libraries.
Local government in the state is governed by Local Government Acts, the most recent of which – the Local Government Act 2001 – established this two-tier structure.
The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 is the founding document of the present system.
The Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland (1999) provided for constitutional recognition of local government for the first time in Ireland.
(the ‘local government reform act 2014’ changed the existing structure, in line with reforms announced in October 2012 by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government)
(these included the abolition of all town councils and the merger of some county councils)
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(the reforms came into effect in 2014, to coincide with that year’s local elections)
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👈👈👈☜*“THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥