New Mayors and Deputy Mayors are appointed throughout County's Municipal Districts for the next 12 months

A new Mayor is now over the Naas Municipal District with now Deputy County Mayor Rob Power handing over his chains of office.

Fianna Fáil Cllr Rob Power, who has been Mayor of Naas Municipal District, was succeeded at a ceremony last week by Fine Gael Cllr Billy Hillis.

Cllr Hillis was first elected in 1985 and served in Mayor in 2004/2005.

Fianna Fáil Cllr Carmel Kelly has been elected as the new Deputy Mayor of Naas Municipal District.

In Athy, Labour Cllr Aoife Breslin is the new Mayor of the Municipal District.

Fine Gael Cllr Ivan Keatley is the new Deputy Mayor.

Meanwhile, in Newbridge, Fianna Fáil's Murty Aspell was elected as Mayor of Kildare- Newbridge Municipal District.

Fianna Fáil Cllr Suzanne Doyle is the new Deputy Mayor for the Kildare- Newbridge Municipal District.

For the Maynooth Municipal District, Cllr Tim Durkan Fine Gael is the new Mayor while Deputy Mayor is Labour Cllr John McGinley.

In the Leixlip/ Celbridge Municipal Districts Labour Cllr Kevin Byrne is the new Mayor  and Sinn Féin Cllr Íde Cussen is the Deputy Mayor.