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06 Sept 2025

BREAKING: The third councillor is elected in the Carrick-on-Suir LEA race

Labour's Michael 'Chicken' Brennan claimed the third seat after the second count

BREAKING: The third councillor is elected in the Carrick-on-Suir LEA race

Labour's Michael 'Chicken' Brennan was elected on the third count in Carrick-on-Suir LEA

First-time Labour candidate Micheal 'Chicken' Brennan became the third councillor to be elected in the Carrick-on-Suir LEA race on the second count which has just been announced at the Tipperary Count Centre in Thurles.

The 125 transfers the Killenaule man received from the distribution of Ballingarry FF Cllr Imelda Goldsboro's 390 transfers pushed him over the quota of 1,508 giving him a total vote of 1,611.

The third count in this LEA involving the distribution of Sinn Féin Cllr David Dunne's surplus will now commence.

The Second Count result in Carrick-on-Suir LEA 

Distribution of Cllr Imelda Goldsboro's surplus of 390 votes 

 Bourke Kieran (FF): 1,396  (+62); Brennan Michael (Lab):  1,611 (+125) (elected); Fitzgerald Mark (FG):             1,442 (+103); Murphy Martin (IFP) 310 (+11); O'Meara Kevin (IND) 1,121 (+89) 

Imelda Goldsboro (FF) and David Dunne (SF) elected on the first count announced on Saturday night 

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