Noel Harrington
Noel Harrington (born 24 December 1970) is an Irish Fine Gael politician. He was elected as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South–West constituency at the 2011 general election. He was a member of Cork County Council for the Bantry electoral area from 1999 to 2011.
Political Career[edit]
He was elected to represent the Bantry Electoral Area to Cork County Council for Fine Gael on his first attempt in June 1999 when he succeeded Michael Harrington who sadly passed away in February 2010. He was re-elected in 2004, and again in 2009 by the people of Beara and West Cork at Cork County Council. In 2007, he was nominated to contest that years Senate Elections on the Industrial and Commercial Panel and made it to the 24th Count when he lost narrowly by less than one vote.
In 2008 he was then elected Mayor of Cork County. He worked extremely hard to deliver many projects for Cork during that year with the assistance of Council and Management in Cork County. Throughout that year he chaired many difficult sessions to successfully adopt the current County Development Plan and an extremely difficult budget for 2009. That same year he was elected Chairman of The South West Regional Authority and successfully presided over the adoption of the extremely important Regional Planning Guidelines.
Education[edit]
Educated at Castletownbere Boys NS and Beara Community School, he studied in Galway before taking up his current position as Postmaster in Castletownbere in 1992.
