Pastoral Council candidates announced

Twenty-one of the people who were nominated for the pastoral council have agreed to go forward for election.

Voting in the election will take place after Mass on Saturday evening 19 November and after all Masses in Kilcullen and Gormanstown on Sunday 20 November. The voting centres will be in the church in the case of Gormanstown and in the Parish Centre in the case of Kilcullen.

The voting centres will be open for about an hour after each Mass (the exact closing time will be an hour and three-quarters after Mass begins).

The names of the 21 candidates will appear on the ballot paper in alphabetical order of their surnames. Voters are entitled to vote for up to six people, and this will be done by putting an X in the box(es) beside the candidate(s) of choice.

Voters are asked not vote for more than six candidates as this will spoil their vote.

Counting of votes may take an hour or two, and the count will therefore be held in the Parish Centre at 7.30pm on Monday evening 21 November. Candidates and other parishioners are welcome to attend at the count.

The result of the election will be announced as soon as the count is complete.

Following the election, the remaining six lay members of the pastoral council will be selected through a discernment process.

Those who have agreed to allow their names to go forward for election are Margaret Aspell, Old Kilcullen; Mary Barber (nee Miley), Grangebeg; Howard Berney, Hillside; Petra Conroy, Moanbane Park; Gavin Coyne, Nicholastown; Ethna Dempsey, Carlow Road; Joe Dooley, Glebe North; Clare Dunne, Gormanstown; Pat Goulding, Ballysax Rd; Joe Kelly Snr, Milemill; Michelle McCarthy, Sunbury Close; Liam McDonnell, Curragh Lawns; Miriam McDonnell, Curragh Lawns; Evelyn Mackenzie-Smith, Killinane; Maurice O'Mahony, Old Kilcullen; Philip O'Rourke, Brannockstown; Mary Phelan, Moanbane Park; Esther Reddy, Glebe North; Bernadette Ryan, Cnoc na Greine; Charlie Talbot, Moanbane Park; Siobhan Tutty-Bardon, Main Street.