Francie Molloy

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Francie Molloy MLA

Incumbent
Assumed office 
2003
Constituency Mid-Ulster

Political party Sinn Féin
Website Francie Molloy MLA

Francie Molloy ( Irish Proinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh) MLA is a Sinn Féin politician and a deputy speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

He first stood for Sinn Féin in Fermanagh and South Tyrone in the 1982 Assembly Elections finishing as runner-up 542 votes behind the DUP candidate with over 1400 SDLP votes non-transferable. He was then elected to Dungannon council in 1985 representing the Coalisland area. He retired from the council in 1989 but was re-elected in 1993 and has been a councillor since then.

Molloy stood unsuccessfully for Sinn Féin in the European election, 1994.

Molloy was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996 representing Mid-Ulster and then for the same constituency to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998, 2003 and 2007.

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