Michael O'Connell is an Irish Labour Party politician and former Lord Mayor of Cork.
He was first elected onto the Cork City Council in 1999, and served as Deputy Lord Mayor in 2006–2007.
[citation needed] By 2010, O’Connell was living in Shanakiel, representing the North-West ward, where he was first elected in 1999.
[5] He succeeded Dara Murphy as Lord Mayor of Cork in 2010, winning the position with six Labour votes along with the support of six members of Fine Gael and four members of Fianna Fáil, under an agreement that has seen the three parties share the mayoralty for the previous 3 decades in Cork City.
[6] His term as Lord Mayor coincided with the historic visit of reigning British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II to Cork, to whom he presented a specially commissioned brooch.