Some Naperville, Lisle, Villa Park and Downers Grove incumbents lose reelection bids
Posted4/7/2021 1:00 AM
Voters on Tuesday put three new people on the Naperville City Council and gave a longtime Aurora alderman another four years to help run the second-largest city in the state, according to unofficial results.
And in Lisle, Villa Park and Downers Grove, some incumbents lost their seats.
County clerks won t declare official results until April 21, as they wait for provisional votes, grace-period votes and outstanding vote-by-mail ballots to arrive.
Naperville
Three newcomers and one incumbent appear to have won an 11-person race for four seats on the Naperville City Council.
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Outgoing Macra na Ferime president Thomas Duffy hailed the organisation’s ability to hold a national election during a pandemic.
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Newly elected Macra na Feirme president John Keane gives his initial thoughts after securing a landslide victory in Wednesday’s election.
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Claire Hunter
Claire Hunter is a business woman from Belfast who co-owns the Marine Hotel Ballycastle, Rule of Crumb (a gluten-free food company) and sells Toastabags. She discussed with Anne O’Donoghue her transition in moving to her husband’s dairy farm in the countryside. The full interview is on The Irish Country Living Podcast.
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Macra na Feirme has elected its new national president in the first contested presidential race since 2017. \ Philip Doyle
John Keane, a dairy and beef farmer from north Tipperary has been elected as the 38th president of Macra na Feirme after seeing off competition from a fellow countyman Daniel Long.
Keane was elected by a comfortable margin of 105 votes to 12.
Keane first joined Macra in 2014 as a member of the Devil’s Bit club. He has held various positions throughout the organisation most recently treasurer of his club and chair of the board.
He was also a driving force behind Macra’s Make the Moove campaign which centred on tackling issues around rural mental health.
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Elaine Houlihan has been elected the next Macra na Feirme Munster vice-president, beating stiff competition from Áine McCarthy.
The total poll cast for Munster vice-president was 62, of which Houlihan secured a majority, with 42 votes cast in her name.
She is currently the chairperson of Limerick Macra and her home club is Kilmallock Macra.
Although she is a qualified physiotherapist, Houlihan currently works for a local TD in Co. Limerick.
She is a former chairperson of her club, Kilmallock Macra, and also sits on the Macra na Feirme National Competitions Committee.
Announcing her candidacy in February, Houlihan said that her main aim is to reboot clubs with a major focus on their members, noting: “Macra clubs across the county are member-led and member-run and [a] one-fix all solution doesn’t work for all clubs.”
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John Keane has been elected as the next president of Macra na Feirme, after the counting of ballots at the Irish Farm Centre in Dublin today (Wednesday, April 7).
Keane, of Devil’s Bit Macra in north Tipperary, defeated Daniel Long in the postal ballot, which began with the issuing of ballots on March 17.
The result follows a series of online hustings that took place over the course of March across the different Macra regions.
Keane will take up the reins as president of the organisation at the Macra AGM next month.
He will take over from Thomas Duffy, who comes to the end of his two-year term as president, having taken over the role in May 2019.