{"id":508851,"date":"2026-06-20T01:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/508851\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T01:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:17:09","slug":"councillor-helen-ogbu-elected-as-galway-city-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/508851\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillor Helen Ogbu elected as Galway City mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Councillor Helen Ogbu has been elected as Mayor of the City of Galway.<\/p>\n<p>She has been selected for the role at the Galway City Council AGM in City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Ogbu becomes the 72nd person to hold the honour of the First Citizen of Galway City. She is also the first African woman to be elected to the post.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Josie Forde has been elected Deputy Mayor.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/politics\/arid-41845632.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Irish Examiner<\/a> reports, born in Nigeria, Ms Ogbu has lived in Ireland for 20 years and raised her child in Galway. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"not-prose no-underline\" data-action=\"click\" data-category=\"Read more article clicked\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/former-td-brendan-kenneally-no-longer-a-member-of-fianna-fail-1916104.html\" data-value=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/former-td-brendan-kenneally-no-longer-a-member-of-fianna-fail-1916104.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2-49405342-e1781897283632.jpg\" class=\"rounded-sm object-contain bg-transparent z-10 w-full h-full not-prose\" alt=\"Former Td Brendan Kenneally \u2018No Longer A Member Of Fianna F\u00e1il\u2019\" width=\"278\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Former TD Brendan Kenneally \u2018no longer a member of Fianna F\u00e1il\u2019<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She has also fostered dozens of children. Her husband, Sunny Orji-Ogbu, was also a politician; he was assassinated in Nigeria in 2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt&#8217;s going to be amazing,\u201d Ms Ogbu said. \u201cThe City of Tribes, for the first time [electing a black woman], that says a lot. The people of Galway have the opportunity to prove that, to do that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThis is the time I need to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">She said that while there has been racism, it is not something she is witnessing at the doors, as she questioned if the online hate was coming from real people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Councillor Helen Ogbu has been elected as Mayor of the City of Galway. She has been selected for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-508851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}