Birr Town Council is a local council

Town Councils in the Republic of Ireland

The term Town Council was introduced into Local government in the Republic of Ireland by the Local Government Act 2001. From 1 January 2002 the existing Urban District Councils and boards of Town Commissioners were renamed as Town Councils....

 for the town of Birr

Birr

Birr is a town in County Offaly, Ireland. Once called Parsonstown, after the Parsons family who were local landowners and hereditary Earls of Rosse. It is also a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe....

 in Co. Offaly. Previously it was known as Birr Urban District Council.

Members

Currently the following are members, along with five others:

• Tony McLoughlin
  Tony McLoughlin
  Tony McLoughlin is an Irish Fine Gael politician. He was elected as a Teachta Dála for the Sligo–North Leitrim constituency at the 2011 general election. He was elected to Sligo County Council in the mid-1970s and was subsequently elected to Sligo Borough Council...
  
  , Independent
• Seamus Fanneran, Labour
• John Carroll, Independent (formerly Sinn Féin
  Sinn Féin
  Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...
  
  ), member since 1985
• Eddie Enright
  Eddie Enright
  Eddie Enright is a retired Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Thurles Sarsfields and with the Tipperary senior inter-county team in the 1990s and 2000s. He also won 3 Fitzgibbon Cup medals with UCC, captaining the side in 1998. He is currently hurling with Watergrasshill...
  
  , Fine Gael

Elections

In common with all local assemblies in the Republic of Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

, every five years an election

Election

An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the...

 is held. Deaths and term resignations are replaced by co-option

Co-option

A co-opting or less frequently co-optation most commonly refers to action performed in a number of fields whereby an opponent is nullified or neutralized by absorption but there are other distinct senses as well....

, in agreement of the council.