Tributes paid as Cork’s Noel Collins, Ireland’s longest-serving politician, dies aged 86

One incident saw him bring a dead rat to the Midleton UDC chamber. The rat had been trapped beneath a baby’s cot by a mother languishing on the housing list.
Tributes paid as Cork’s Noel Collins, Ireland’s longest-serving politician, dies aged 86

Noel Collins, longest-serving public representative in the State receiving his second Covid-19 vaccine in 2021.

The longest serving public representative in the State, Cork county councillor Noel Collins has passed away aged 86. 

Mr Collins was first elected to serve the people of Midleton in 1968, a role he held for the 55 years that followed, and was a regular poll-topper in the area. 

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