Kilkenny councillor Tomás Breathnach has been elected Cathaoirleach of the Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly. His term of office will run to July 2012.
Cllr Breathnach was elected at the annual general meeting of the Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly which took place on Friday September 9, at 12 noon in Assembly House, O’Connell Street, Waterford.
Cllr Tomás Breathnach is a member of the Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly since September 2004. As a member of the Labour Party, Cllr Breathnach represents Kilkenny County Council on the Regional Assembly. Cllr Breathnach also sits on the South East Regional Authority and the South East Regional Task Force.
He is also a retired secondary school teacher and a founding member of both the Confederation of Community Groups of South Kilkenny and of the Ferrybank Socio-Economic Partnership.
Cllr Breathnach said that he looks forward to serving the region to the best of his ability, continuing in the footsteps of past cathaoirligh.
