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Sat 06 Jun 2008Local hero
INTERVIEW:Rotimi Adebari's one-year term as mayor of Portlaoise ends later this month. He has blazed a trail for Africans in Ireland and most of the citizens of the town have supported him all the way. So what has it been like being Ireland's first black mayor? And where will it end for this man on a mission to make a contribution? asks Ruadhan MacCormaic
IT'S A time-consuming business, being Rotimi Adebari. A few weeks after he took over as mayor of Portlaoise last June, with the council's inbox spilling over and staff at the civic office doubling as phone operators, a colleague took him aside one day and asked: "Rotimi, how are you going to manage all this?"
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