2014 Offaly County Council election

2014 Offaly County Council election

23 May 2014
All 19 seats on Offaly County Council 10 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Sinn Féin Fine Gael Seats won 8 3 3 Seat change -1 +3 -3   Fourth party   Party Independent Seats won 5 Seat change -1
Map showing the area of Offaly County Council

An election to all 19 seats on Offaly County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, a decrease from 21 seats at the 2009 election. County Offaly was divided into three local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). In addition, the town councils of Birr, Edenderry and Tullamore were all abolished.

Fianna Fáil remained the largest party after the elections winning 8 seats. Sinn Féin won 3 seats and in terms of vote share also became the second largest party. Fine Gael, by contrast, had a poor set of results and lost half of their seats.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	8	-1	11,116	34.1
	Sinn Féin	3	+3	5,613	17.2
	Fine Gael	3	-3	5,475	16.8
	Green	0	-	58	0.18
	Independent	5	-1	9,731	29.9
Total		19	-2	32,583	100.0	—

Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor.

Birr

Birr: 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	John Leahy[*]	23.05	2,686
	Fianna Fáil	Peter Ormond[*]	13.71	1,598	1,678
	Fine Gael	John Clendennen	10.37	1,209	1,317	1,384	1,574	1,943
	Sinn Féin	Carol Nolan	10.01	1,166	1,420	1,518	1,636	1,703
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Dooley[*]	9.92	1,156	1,287	1,315	1,516	1,539	1,552
	Independent	John Carroll[*]	9.06	1,056	1,147	1,325	1,353	1,529	1,618
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Loughnane	7.61	887	950	991	1,012	1,205	1,271
	Fine Gael	Denis Sheils	6.32	736	775	873	991
	Fine Gael	Pat Phelan	5.59	651	760	790
	Independent	Teresa Ryan-Feehan	4.37	509	655
Electorate: 20,034   Valid: 11,654 (58.17%)   Spoilt: 116   Quota: 1,665   Turnout: 11,770 (58.75%)

Edenderry

Edenderry: 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Sinn Féin	Martin O'Reilly†††††	19.08	1,669
	Fianna Fáil	Eddie Fitzpatrick[*]	14.29	1,250
	Independent	John Foley[*]	12.33	1,078	1,229	1,254
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Bourke[*]	10.37	907	940	945	968	1,031	1,069	1,106	1,239	1,378
	Fine Gael	Liam Quinn[*]	7.64	668	697	702	761	787	831	1,040	1,145	1,207
	Fianna Fáil	Ger Plunkett[*]	7.62	667	705	707	708	710	722	741	799	818
	Independent	Noel Cribbin	7.24	633	669	676	704	787	848	862	890	1,106
	Independent	Fergus McDonnell	5.03	440	482	501	518	569	618	645	658
	Fine Gael	William Whittle	3.84	336	344	348	367	374	382
	Fianna Fáil	Robert Kelleghan	3.84	336	352	353	353	361	391	400
	Independent	Stephen Carroll	2.76	241	266	298	300	304
	Labour	Declan Leddin	2.76	241	254	256	272
	Independent	Patricia Brady	1.99	174	180	183
	Independent	Emmanuel Sweeney	1.21	106	128
Electorate: 15,890   Valid: 8,746 (55.04%)   Spoilt: 113   Quota: 1,250   Turnout: 8,859 (55.75%)

Tullamore

Tullamore: 7 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Sinn Féin	Brendan Killeavy	22.8	2,778
	Independent	Dervill Dolan[*]	15.33	1,868
	Fianna Fáil	Sinead Dooley[*]	9.53	1,161	1,340	1,379	1,384	1,403	1,432	1,493	1,541
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Moran	9.12	1,111	1,156	1,308	1,311	1,333	1,344	1,359	1,428	1,457	1,482	1,495	1,505
	Fianna Fáil	Declan Harvey	9.07	1,105	1,307	1,323	1,327	1,342	1,354	1,415	1,434	1,570
	Fine Gael	Tommy McKeigue[*]	7.91	964	1,066	1,088	1,091	1,107	1,227	1,300	1,332	1,756
	Fianna Fáil	Danny Owens[*]	7.70	938	1,011	1,022	1,025	1,034	1,068	1,095	1,122	1,177	1,217	1,230	1,236
	Fine Gael	Molly Buckley[*]	5.06	616	695	713	718	731	808	893	936
	Independent	Seán O'Brien	3.92	478	768	784	796	858	864	907	1,012	1,102	1,209	1,230	1,232
	Labour	Paddy Doheny	2.86	349	393	399	409	418	430
	Independent	John Bracken	2.63	321	425	462	472	509	515	532
	Fine Gael	Theresa Wrafter	2.42	295	308	316	320	323
	Independent	Seamus Kirwan	1.16	141	239	258	270
	Green	Richard Brennan	0.48	58	84	85
Electorate: 20,607   Valid: 12,183 (59.12%)   Spoilt: 119   Quota: 1,523   Turnout: 12,302 (59.70%)

Changes

Co-options

Party		Outgoing	LEA	Reason	Date	Co-optee
	Sinn Féin	Carol Nolan	Birr	Elected to the 32nd Dáil at the 2016 general election.	26 February 2016	Sean Maher
	Fianna Fáil	Sinead Dooley	Tullamore	Appointed CEO of Irish Rural Link.[1]	19 September 2017	Tony McCormack[2]
	Sinn Féin	Martin O'Reilly	Edenderry	Resigned to pursue a career in teaching.[3]	22 January 2019	Alan Davy[4]

Changes in affiliation

Name	LEA	Elected as		New affiliation		Date
John Leahy	Birr		Independent		Renua	13 March 2015[5]
Noel Cribbin	Edenderry		Independent		Fine Gael	8 November 2018[6]

References

1. Doyle, Kevin (31 July 2017). "Men only: County council has no women after lone female member steps down". Irish Independent. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
2. "Vacant seat filled on Offaly County Council as Tullamore business man co-opted in". Offaly Live. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
3. Kelly, Justin (10 November 2018). "Offaly County Councillor announces his resignation". Offaly Live. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
4. Kelly, Justin (22 January 2019). "Offaly electrician takes council seat following O'Reilly resignation". Offaly Live. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
5. "Lucinda Creighton officially launches her new political party, Renua Ireland". Newstalk. 13 March 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
6. "'No brainer' to join FG says Cribbin". Offaly Independent. 8 November 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2025.

Sources

"Offaly County Council". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 1 June 2014.