Annual Report 2011.pdf (size 6 MB) - Offaly County Council

Transportation and Emergency Services
Environment and Water Services
Register of Electors
The Register of Electors was produced on the 1 st February
and came into force on 15 th February 2012. The total
electorate for County Offaly for the 2012/2013 Register of
Electors was 56,713 broken down over the local electoral
areas as follows:
Birr 10,699
Edenderry 15,570
Ferbane 11,859
Tullamore 18,585
Total on the Register 56,713
Civic Receptions
Civic Welcome
Offaly County Council resolved at its meeting on 16 th May
2011 to accord a Civic Welcome to President of the United
States of America Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle
Obama on the occasion of their visit to the President’s
ancestral home of Moneygall, Co. Offaly on 23 rd May 2011.
The Council also agreed to present gifts with Offaly themes
to the President and Mrs. Obama to mark the occasion. A
parchment scroll of Civic Welcome by well known Irish
calligrapher, Tim O’Neill, in the lettering that emulates the
Book of Durrow and the Book of Kells was signed by Cllr.
Danny Owens, Cathaoirleach and Mr. Pat Gallagher,
County Manager. The other gifts included: a model of the
Durrow High Cross; a selection of books commissioned by
Offaly County Council, i.e., Stories from a Sacred
Landscape – from Croghan Hill to Clonmacnoise, by
Caimin O’Brien, Living under Thatch, by Barry O’Reilly
and Offaly History & Society – Essays on the History of
an Irish County, edited by William Nolan and Timothy P.
O’Neill; a CD Black is the Earth composed by Adele
O’Dwyer; Andromeda – a pendant specially
commissioned by Offaly County Council, designed by
Rachel McKenna, Architect, Offaly County Council and
crafted by jeweler Cathal Barber in Birr. The Scroll of
Civic Welcome and the presidential Gifts were conveyed
to the President and his wife through the offices of the
U.S. Embassy in Dublin.
Rachel McKenna, Architect, Cathal Barber, Jeweler, Seán Murray, Director of
Services, Monica Cleary, SEO Corporate Services, Cllr. Danny Owens,
Cathaoirleach and Pat Gallagher, County Manager
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