Councillor Bernard Moynihan has been elected as the new Mayor of the County of Cork, with Councillor Finbarr Harrington elected as Deputy Mayor at Cork County Council’s AGM this afternoon.

Mayor Moynihan was nominated by Councillor Gearoid Murphy and seconded by Councillor Alan Coleman.

The Duhallow native and Fianna Fáil member has been a public representative for 12 years. He was first elected to Cork County Council in 2014.

He was subsequently re-elected in 2019 and 2024, and was the first councillor elected across all local electoral areas (LEAs) in Cork in 2024. He topped the poll in the Kanturk-Mallow Municipal District and was elected on the first count.

Mayor Moynihan graduated from University College Cork with a BA in Education. He worked as a schoolteacher for nine years, before going on to work as a trade union representative with the Association of Secondary Schools Ireland, where he advocated for improved terms and conditions for members, while also representing and supporting members at the WRC.

Mayor Moynihan is a member of Cork County Council's Planning SPC, Economic Development SPC, and the Local Community Development Committee.