Niall Ó Brolcháin
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| Niall Ó Brolcháin | |
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| In office June 19, 2006 – June 19, 2007 |
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| Deputy | Billy Cameron |
| Preceded by | Brian Walsh |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Costello |
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| Born | April 14, 1965  Ireland |
| Political party | Green Party/Comhaontas Glas |
| Profession | Public Representative |
| Religion | Agnostic |
Niall Ó Brolcháin is an Irish Green Party politician, and a councillor for the South Ward of Galway City Council. He previously served as Mayor of Galway for the 2006/07 term.
He was elected in June 2004 with 10.03% (1,413 votes) of the vote in a 4 seat ward. His victory was one of the closest of the elections, beating Fianna Fáil's Tom Cox by 40 votes.
Since his election he has worked on campaigns ranging from Quality Bus Corridors to better sewage treatment and waste management facilities. He sits on the city's Economic Development Group and Environment Strategic Policy Committee, and became Galway's first Green Mayor in June 2006. He opened the Mutton Island causeway to the public and is working to expand Terryland Forest Park, improve school bus services in the city and tackle Galway's many transport problems. More recently Ó Brolcháin has also campaigned for the implementation of zero waste policies in Galway City and County and has called for fresh approaches to energy production and use, including the promotion of renewables.
Prior to his successful campaign for City Council, he ran for Dáil Eireann in the Galway West constituency in the 2002 general election receiving 4.3% of the vote. In February 2005, he was nominated as Galway West's Green Candidate for the next general election. Opinion polls gave him a strong chance of winning a seat, but at the 2007 general election he failed to be elected.
Having been elected to Galway City Council by only 40 votes in 2004, his seat is being targeted by other parties ahead of the next local elections in June 2009.[citation needed]
