John Browne

With 4 of the 5 Electoral Areas in County Limerick Having declared, below are the trends of the percentage of  1st preference votes for all the main political parties from 1999, 2004 and 2009. This Post will be updated as more results are made available.
Updated 23:30 Final Results are in

Limerick County Council Party Trends '99 to '09

 Adare (7): Tomas Hannon Lab, Patrick Fitzgerald IND, James Cavanagh FF, Leonard Enright FF, Rose Brennan FG, Richard Butler FG, Leo Walsh FG.
Kilmallock (5): Mike Donegan FF, Eddie Ryan FF, James Heffernan Lab, Mike Houlihan FG, William O’Donnell FG.
Castleconnell (7): Eddie Wade FF, Noel Gleeson FF, Brigid Teefy Ind, Mary Jackman FG, JohnEganFG, Mary Harty FG, Michael Sheahan FG .
Rathkeale (4): John Sheahan FG, David Naughton FG,Stephen Keary FG, Kevin Sheahan FF.
Newcastle Wst (5): Michael Collins FF, Francis Foley FF, Liam Galvin FG, Patrck O’Donovan FG, Jerome Scanlan FG

Below is the current declared make up of the council as well as histrical make up of the council.

Limerick County Council Seats

Limerick County Council Seats 2009

Limerick County Council Seats 2004

Limerick County Council Seats 1999

Limerick City Council Results and trends are available here

Limerick City Council % Trend '91 to '09

Above is a chart showing the trends for all the Political Parties in the Limerick city council Local Elections. This is based on first preference votes.
The 2009 Numbers are from Tallies provided by fiannfuddy on Politics dot ie.
The 2009 Numbers have now been updated with the final first preference results.
The overall trend is showing a decline in Fianna Fail support in the city at every election sine 1991.

The chart is a total of all the votes cast in all the wards in Limerick City and plotted as a percentage of the total number of votes cast. Limerick city changeds from 4 wards to 3 in 2009.

Below is the current makeup of the Limrick City Council.

North (6): Maurice Quinlivan SF, Kathleen Leddin IND,  Tom Shortt Lab, Michael Hourigan FG, Cormac Hurley FG, Kevin KielyFG.
South (7): Pat Kennedy IND, Joe Leddin Lab, Orla Mcloughlin Lab, Maria Byrne FG, Ger Fahy FG, Jim Long FG, Diarmuid Scully FG.
East (4): Kieran O’Hanlon FF, John Gilligan IND, Gerry Mclouglin Lab, Deins McCarthyFG.

Limerick City Council Seats 2009

Limerick City Council Seats

Charts Below show theMake up of Limerick City Council from the 1991, 1999 and 2004 Local Elections.

Limeick City Council 2004

Limerick City Council 1999

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The Limerick Christmas tree had its lights turned on this evening. The tree is floating in the river. Apparently it’s taller than last years tree. It’s hard to tell though. I say tree but it’s made of bits of scafolding. Anyway it’s the tallest Christmas decoration in Ireland. It’s still an “Eco tree” whatever that means but it’s missing its wind turbine star this year.

I was in Dublin on Saturday and I was hoping to catch the match in a pub or something. Unfortunately all the pubs were showing English soccer and not Irish rugby. It just goes to show that the Dubs are more English than the English.

Anyway as I missed the match yesterday I decided to go to the hallowed ground and do my penance. I explained my situation to the security guard and he took pity on me and allowed me in to ask forgiveness for my sin. While I was in there I took this photo!

“To the Brave and Faithful, Nothing is impossible”

Shannon Bridge

Originally uploaded by brownej

Testing Posting to the Blog from Flickr.
This was taken in February and is a crop of a larger image. I must go back and retake it when there’s less trafic on the bridge and after they put back up the flower baskets.
I think this is probably a good position for a night shot but under the bridge at night wouldn’t be the safest
This was submitted as part of a five panel print for the Limerick camera club. I resubmitted it for the Limerick cup only I printed it much larger and ar a tighter crop than the panel submission or this one.
I have a copy of this printed on to Canvas and it’s just about 4 feet across. It fills the wall perfectly above the couch.

I took this photo of Merchants Quay in Limerick on Friday Evening. I was down for the Salsa Celtica in Arthurs Quay park around 9 o’clock. Before the music started there was a nice light falling on the castle and the court house so I took a couple of shots. This is merely a crop, I haven’t done any processing.

I liked the photo so much I made it my banner. Like any photo on this site if you click on them a larger version will appear. Clicking on the link at the base of the larger photo will take you to it’s flickr page.

I know I’ve said this before but I mean it this time, I’m going to start blogging.
First of all I need to write about something. Mike has downloaded and installed flickr tag. I saw it and thought thats a great idea. So I downloaded it and went to upload it to my word press account. Would you believe it, I already had it installed. It’s been so long since I’ve been here or done anything with this Blog that I forgot what I had installed.

So Anyway, here’s a  couple of photos from my flickr account.