Former lord mayor of Cork, Kieran McCarthy, has said he won a \u201cgolden ticket\u201d in securing his first council nomination to be a candidate in next month\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n
Mr McCarthy, an Independent city councillor for the South East ward, yesterday secured the nomination of Waterford City and County Council.<\/p>\n
The election of President Michael D Higgins\u2019 successor will occur on Friday, October 24, and for candidates to get on the ballot, they need the nominations of four of Ireland\u2019s 31 local authorities, or at least 20 Oireachtas members.<\/p>\n
Mr McCarthy, who served as lord mayor from 2023 to 2024, was one of 11 candidates who addressed councillors in Dungarvan on Friday, and he won by 11 votes to 10.<\/p>\n
First elected as a councillor 2009, Mr McCarthy has been re-elected three times. He is a respected historian who has written dozens of books on Cork\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
He was disappointed at Monday night\u2019s meeting of Cork City Council when his colleagues decided not to nominate a candidate.<\/p>\n
Mr McCarthy told The Echo that he was \u201cdelighted and stunned\u201d at winning the Deise nod.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cNominations are like golden tickets, so I\u2019m extremely honoured to receive the nomination of Waterford City and County Council, and I have to say I was most impressed with the range of diverse questions; they treated the whole afternoon with much respect,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n
\u201cThank you sincerely to the Waterford councillors, it means an awful lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr McCarthy said he intends to fight on, and his next port of call is in his home town, where he will go before Cork County Council to seek its nomination on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen there are a couple of councils that have to make a decision over the coming days, so you never know,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the meantime, I\u2019m just getting my head around such a huge honour.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nominations for the presidency close on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former lord mayor of Cork, Kieran McCarthy, has said he won a \u201cgolden ticket\u201d in securing his first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,2670,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,790,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-74423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cork-politics","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}