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Máire Hendron

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Máire Hendron
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for Belfast East
In office
2 July 2019 – 9 January 2020
Preceded byNaomi Long
Succeeded byNaomi Long
34th Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast
In office
1 June 2014 – 1 June 2015
Lord MayorNichola Mallon
Preceded byChristopher Stalford
Succeeded byGuy Spence
Member of Belfast City Council
In office
5 May 2005 – 22 May 2014
Preceded byJoseph O'Donnell
Succeeded byDistrict abolished
ConstituencyPottinger
Personal details
NationalityNorthern Irish
Political partyAlliance
OccupationPolitician

Máire Hendron is an Alliance Party politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Belfast East from 2019 to 2020.

She was a Belfast City Councillor for the Pottinger DEA from 2005 to 2014, and served as Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2014 to 2015.

Political career

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She was first elected to Belfast City Council in 2005, representing the Pottinger District.

Hendron was re-elected to the Council 2011, but failed to be elected onto the successor Titanic District at the 2014 local elections.

Hendron was appointed Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2014.[1]

Hendron was co-opted the Northern Ireland Assembly in July 2019 after the incumbent MLA, Naomi Long, was elected to the European Parliament .[2] She resigned as an MLA in January 2020.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Maire Hendron: 'When contentious issues arose in council, it was important to work with all the parties... It was very unpleasant at times'". Belfast Telegraph. 24 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Maire Hendron replaces Naomi Long as east Belfast MLA". BBC News. 20 June 2019.
  3. ^ New MLA – Belfast East Constituency – 08 January 2020