O’Sullivan wins race to be new Kerry chairman

PATRICK O’SULLIVAN was last night ratified as the new chairman of the Kerry county board after he defeated Johnny Mulvihill by 183 votes to 59 votes in the election at the annual convention in the Malton Hotel in Killarney.

The Dr Crokes clubman O’Sullivan comfortably reached the quota to ensure he will fill the hot seat vacated by Jerome Conway last night. Conway recently opted to vacate his role a year short of the end of his five-year term because he sought to stagger the exit of officers from the current executive.

O’Sullivan has served as vice-chairman of the Kerry county board for the last four years and also served in 2011 as the liaison officer to the Kerry senior football team, the chairman of the strategic vision and action plan implementation committee and the chairman of the juvenile fixtures monitoring committee.