The make up of the new Clare County Council has been decided with all 28 seats now being filled.
A total of 59 candidates contested the 28 seats in this year’s election. The new council will sit for a term of five years.
Three sitting members of the local authority lost their seats this time around including Sixmilebridge’s Independent councillor PJ Ryan; Fianna Fáil’s Cillian Murphy from Kilkee and Lahinch based Green Party member Liam Grant.
Sinn Féin doubled its representation on the council with Tommy Guilfoyle taking a seat in the Ennis Municipal District while his colleague Donna McGettigan retained her seat in Shannon.
Fianna Fáil will continue to hold its majority in the next council with a total of fourteen seats, an increase of one, while Fine Gael has also increased its presence by one seat taking them to nine. The number of independents has however dropped from five to three.
Female representation on the council has also increased to six.
The line-up for the next council is as follows:
Ennis LEA
Pat Daly (FF)
Mary Howard (FG)
Paul Murphy (FG)
Clare Colleran Molloy (FF)
Tommy Guilfoyle (SF)
Antoinette Baker Bashua (FF)
Tom O Callaghan (FF)
Ennistymon LEA
Bill Slattery (FG)
Joe Garrihy (FG)
Shane Talty (FF)
Joe Killeen (FF)
Killlaloe LEA
Joe Cooney (FG)
Pat Hayes (FF)
Alan O’Callaghan (FF)
Pat Burke (FG)
Tony O’Brien (FF)
Kilrush LEA
Dinny Gould (IND)
Ian Lynch (IND)
Rita McInerney (FF)
Gabriel Keating (FG)
Michael Shannon (FF)
Shannon LEA
David Griffin (FF)
Donna McGettigan (SF)
John Crowe (FG)
Rachel Hartigan (FF)
Pat O’Gorman (FF)
Michael Begley (IND)
Tony Mulcahy (FG)