Francie Molloy
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Francie Molloy MLA | |
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Constituency | Mid-Ulster |
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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.