2023 Guests of Honor
Cllr Danny Collins, Mayor of Cork County, Ireland
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Cork County, Ireland
Cllr Danny Collins, an Independent Councillor for the West Cork Electoral area is the Mayor of the County of Cork.
Mayor Collins topped the poll in the Bantry Electoral Area in the 2019 elections, having been co-opted to Cork County Council in March 2016 following the election of his brother Micheal to Dáil Éireann.
Raised in Lowertown, Schull, Mayor Collins studied catering and hospitality at the Regional Technical College (now MTU), and initially worked at several businesses in Cork and England. In 1998, he leased his first business in Bantry before purchasing the Boston Bar where he still trades today.
Active across a wide range of community and voluntary organisations, Mayor Collins credits his late mother for inspiring him to help others and his father, who worked for the nearby Drinagh Co Op for 48 years never missing a day of work, for his strong focus on economic development.
Mayor Collins lives in Bantry with his partner Noreen Coakley with strong links to the town and the West Cork area where supporting local enterprise was always an active ethos. With a passion for local government, supporting start ups and a strong advocate for local community, Mayor Collins is keen to showcase the very best of Cork County.
Mayor Collins topped the poll in the Bantry Electoral Area in the 2019 elections, having been co-opted to Cork County Council in March 2016 following the election of his brother Micheal to Dáil Éireann.
Raised in Lowertown, Schull, Mayor Collins studied catering and hospitality at the Regional Technical College (now MTU), and initially worked at several businesses in Cork and England. In 1998, he leased his first business in Bantry before purchasing the Boston Bar where he still trades today.
Active across a wide range of community and voluntary organisations, Mayor Collins credits his late mother for inspiring him to help others and his father, who worked for the nearby Drinagh Co Op for 48 years never missing a day of work, for his strong focus on economic development.
Mayor Collins lives in Bantry with his partner Noreen Coakley with strong links to the town and the West Cork area where supporting local enterprise was always an active ethos. With a passion for local government, supporting start ups and a strong advocate for local community, Mayor Collins is keen to showcase the very best of Cork County.