Mark Casey elected as the new Cathaoirleach for South Longford
The new Cathaoirleach of Ballymahon MD, Cllr Mark Casey, outlined ambitious plans for his term
Independent Councillor Mark Casey has been elected as the new chairperson of the Ballymahon Municipal District.
The new Cathaoirleach was proposed at an AGM by Cllr Pat O’Toole and jointly seconded by Cllr’s Paul Ross and Seán Mimnagh.
During the meeting, Legan’s Paul Ross was proposed for the position of Leas Cathaoirleach by Cllr Martin Skelly. This was seconded by Cllr Pat O’Toole.
Speaking to the Longford Leader following the AGM, Cathaoirleach Mark Casey specified a number of goals he hoped to work on during his upcoming term.
“I'm delighted to be elected the newly Cathaoirleach of Ballymahon MD. It's a huge honour and I'm looking forward to my year ahead. I hope I’m as successful as Martin Skelly, who did a great job previous to me, and there's a few projects that we're really looking forward to trying to get over the line.”
“So we're going pushing the amphitheatre in Lanesboro, Main Street in Ballymahon needs a lot of work, and then we're looking at a lot of smaller jobs around the county to make road safety a priority as well.”
“There's another one or two key issues, and national issues that we have to look at, housing being one of the biggest ones that's affecting the young people of our area the most so we want to see how we can get affordable housing into our area as well.”
Leas Cathaoirleach Paul Ross said the focus of the 12 month term would be about getting delivery on projects in the Ballymahon area.
“It's a huge honour to be Leas Cathaoirleach in the Ballymahon area. We were given a programme of work there today, the Pobal le Chéile project in Ballymahon Town which were hoping will start in the latter part of the year, and of course we’ll continue to work in Edgeworthstown, Lanesboro and all the areas in between. This role is about supporting the chairman and about ensuring that we can get delivery on projects in the Ballymahon area over the next 12 months.”
Speaking following the election, outgoing Ballymahon MD Cathaoirleach Cllr Martin Skelly thanked everyone who had supported him during his time in office and offered his best wishes to the new chairman, Cllr Casey, whom he said would do “a fantastic job.”