Tipperary: Sinn Féin breaks mould with five seats in Premier County

Sinn Féin pulled off the previously unthinkable electoral feat of winning a seat in each of the five electoral areas in Co Tipperary, increasing their council representation from one to five.

Only Séamus Morris in the Nenagh area held a seat on the old North Tipperary County Council for the party coming into these elections, with no-one from the party on South Tipperary County Council. But canny electoral strategy, combined with popular candidates, saw the party pull in five seats, the last of them coming in the last count in Clonmel when newcomer Catherine Carey got over the line.

Elsewhere, along with Morris, David Doran was successful in Templemore-Thurles; David Dunne won a seat in Carrick-on-Shannon; and Martin Browne won in Cashel-Tipperary.