John Moran (Mayor of Limerick)

John Moran is an Irish politician who was elected as the Mayor of Limerick, following the 2024 Limerick mayoral election. He was inaugurated on 21 June 2024.

Early life
Born in Birmingham, Moran was raised on his family's farm in Patrickswell, County Limerick and later in Dooradoyle. He attended St Paul's national school in Dooradoyle, and CBS Sexton Street in Limerick.

He obtained a law degree at University College Dublin, followed by a master's from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Career
Following his master's degree, Moran passed the New York state bar and worked as a lawyer on Wall Street for three years. He returned to Ireland in 1990 to attain an Irish law qualification, before returning to the United States to run the New York office of McCann Fitzgerald. He later worked as an investment banker with Zurich Financial Services. In 2004, Moran moved to Paris and set up a juice bar there.

He was the secretary-general of the Department of Finance from 2012 to 2014, having been appointed by finance minister Michael Noonan.

Mayor of Limerick
On 27 February 2024, Moran announced that he would stand as an independent candidate for the 2024 Limerick mayoral election, the first directly-elected head of local government in Ireland. He launched his campaign at a hotel in Newcastle West on 8 April. The election took place on 7 June. Moran received 22.9% of first-preference votes and was elected on the 12th count. He was inaugurated at a ceremony at Limerick's oldest building, St Mary's Cathedral, on 21 June 2024.

Personal life
He is a gay man, and has a partner named Damien.

In 2022, Moran revealed to Matt Cooper in a radio interview that he had bowel cancer.