1.   Gormley was chosen lord mayor not because of any devotion to the environment, but in a rotation system in which a different party gets the job each year.

2.   He has also opposed plans for an industrial incinerator in the Ringsend section of Dublin, where he lives when he is not lord mayor.

3.   His father, John, was a member of the Irish Parliament, lord mayor of Dublin and a minor playwright.

4.   His greatest fear, he said, is that the election this summer for a new lord mayor will go to Sinn Fein.

5.   Nowhere, however, was their acceptance clearer than in politics, where Jews served as lord mayors of Dublin, Belfast and Cork.

6.   The lord mayor of Belfast came over.

7.   They also influenced the wider community, providing it with doctors and dentists, lawyers, merchants, and now, a lord mayor of Belfast.

8.   Two mayors of East Coast cities turned up Wednesday for a harbor cruise arranged by the deputy lord mayor of Sydney, Lucy Hughes Turnbull.

9.   There is a lord mayor of London, but that is only the City of London.

10.   The lord mayors of Belfast and Dublin, in an unprecedented joint pitch, called on US businessmen to help push along the Irish peace process.