Mayor of Limerick breaks deadlock over election motion
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A BID to delay the election of Limerick’s executive mayor was narrowly defeated – with the incumbent first citizen having the deciding vote.
At the same time as the 2019 local election, Limerick people voted in favour of a new directly elected mayor with a five-year term.
Government are keen to set the plans in motion, and have targetted the autumn for an election, with the first term set to be just two-and-a-half years.
This is one of the reasons Cappamore-Kilmallock councillors Gerald Mitchell, PJ Carey, Mike Donegan, John Egan, Eddie Ryan, Martin Ryan and Brigid Teefy all put their names on a motion asking for it to be deferred until 2024.