Angela Lynch-Lupton served as Mayor of Galway

Mayor of Galway

The office of Mayor of Galway is an honorific title used by the of Galway City Council. The Council has jurisdiction throughout its administrative area which is the city of Galway – the largest city in the province of Connacht, in the Republic of Ireland. The office was originally established by a...

 for two terms in 1989 and 1998. She was the eighty-fourth bearer of the name to serve in that office since Peirce Lynch

Peirce Lynch

Peirce Lynch, alias Peter Lynch, Mayor of Galway, fl. 1485-1486.The son of John Lynch fitz Edmond and a brother of Dominick Dubh Lynch and a member of one of The Tribes of Galway, Peirce became the first Mayor of Galway in August 1485, being succeeded by his brother Dominck in August 1486...

, elected as the first Mayor

Mayor

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, in August 1485.

Lynch served two terms as a Fine Gael

Fine Gael

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 councillor for the city's west ward. She also ran for the European Parliament

European Parliament

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 in 1989 but won only 3.25% of the vote. She retired in 2004 due to health reasons, and died in 2007.

Sources

• Role of Honour:The Mayors of Galway City 1485-2001, by William Henry, Galway, 2002. ISBN 0906312509