Brendan Carr (politician)

Brendan Carr is an Irish Labour Party politician and former member of Dublin City Council. He served as the Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2016 to 2017.[1]

Brendan Carr
Dublin City Councillor
In office
May 2014 – May 2019
ConstituencyCabra-Glasnevin
In office
June 1999 – June 2009
ConstituencyCabra-Finglas
Lord Mayor of Dublin
In office
June 2016 – June 2017
Preceded byCríona Ní Dhálaigh
Succeeded byMícheál Mac Donncha
Personal details
BornDublin, Ireland
Political partyLabour Party
Alma materNational College of Ireland
Websitewww.labour.ie/brendancarr/

He was first elected to Dublin City Council at the 1999 local elections as a member for the Cabra-Glasnevin local electoral area.[2] He was re-elected in 2004 but did not contest the 2009 local elections because his son Jason was born that year. He returned to Dublin City Council representing the Cabra-Finglas area at the 2014 Local Elections.[3]

Carr is a SIPTU trade union official.[1]

He was elected Lord Mayor of Dublin in June 2016 with 34 votes from Labour, Fine Gael, Sinn Féin, the Green Party and Independents beating PBPA candidate Tina McVeigh (9 votes) and Fianna Fáil candidate Paul McAuliffe (8 votes).[1]

In his first speech to Dublin City Council as Lord Mayor, Carr said that following the UK's vote to leave the European Union on 23 June 2016, he would contact Mayor of London Sadiq Khan "to establish a working group to ensure..strong bonds" were maintained between the two capital cities.[1]

In a discussion on the proposed Liffey Cycle Route, he commented that "he does not know of anyone who brings bags of shopping (groceries) on bicycles" in response to the economic disadvantages of the cycle route, saying that if there were no cars .[4]

References
  1. "Labour's Brendan Carr elected Lord Mayor of Dublin". RTÉ.ie. 27 June 2016. Archived from the original on 19 July 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  2. "ElectionsIreland.org: 1999 Local - Cabra Glasnevin First Preference Votes". electionsireland.org. Archived from the original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  3. "ElectionsIreland.org: Brendan Carr". electionsireland.org. Archived from the original on 24 December 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  4. "Dublin's lord mayor wants to merge buses and cars on "very small" section of quays -". IrishCycle.com. 12 April 2017. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
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