Winner of mayoral election tells public: 'I shall forever be in your debt'

"I SHALL forever be in your debt".

The words of the newly elected Mayor of Limerick John Moran as he celebrated his resounding victory in the historic contest.

Mr Moran received a resounding mandate of 28,451 votes to be elected as first citizen on the 12th count.

"I have heard loud and clear you echo my own demands for More for Limerick. For more ambition, for more delivery of such badly needed housing and infrastructure and for our desire to see Limerick get a fairer share of the success which Ireland is experiencing this past decade."

Limerick, he said, is "uniting as one".

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"I now look forward to working with the elected council and the council officials to deliver on that."

He said the thing which has brouhgt him the most satisfaction is the impact his campaign has had.

"The proof that the messages of my campaign have touched young and old, rural and urban and all communities new and old right across our beloved county, including many who have saddened me as they told me that they have felt forgotten by the politics of the past," he added.