Chris O'Leary

Cllr
Chris O'Leary

O'Leary in 2015
Lord Mayor of Cork
In office
June 2015  June 2016
Preceded by Mary Shields
Succeeded by Des Cahill
Cork City Councillor
Assumed office
June 2002
Constituency Cork City South East
Personal details
Political party Sinn Féin (2010–present)[1]
Other political
affiliations
Independent (2009–10)
Green Party (until 2009)

Chris O'Leary is a Sinn Féin Cork City Councillor and former Lord Mayor of Cork.[2] With a background in community development projects,[3] and a councillor since 2002, O'Leary left the Green Party in 2009,[4] and was an independent councillor prior to joining Sinn Féin in 2010.[5] He became Lord Mayor of Cork in June 2015,[6] in the second year of a D'Hondt method rotation agreed for the office in 2014.[7][8][9] He was Lord Mayor of Cork from June 2015 to June 2016, when he was replaced by Fine Gael TD Des Cahill.

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