Carmel Hanna
| Carmel Hanna | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for South Belfast |
|
|
In office 25 June 1998 – 18 January 2010 |
|
| Preceded by | New Creation |
| Succeeded by | Conall McDevitt |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Carmel McAleenan 26 March 1946 Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland |
| Political party | SDLP |
| Spouse(s) | Eamon Hanna |
| Children | 4 |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Website | Official website |
Carmel Hanna MLA (born 26 April 1946, in Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland) is an Irish politician. She is a member of the SDLP and was MLA for South Belfast from 1998 to 2010.
Born as Carmel McAleenan, the seventh of nine children, her father was a factory worker in a local packaging plant. She was educated at Star of the Sea Primary School in Warrenpoint, and Our Lady's Grammar School, Newry.
She came to Belfast in 1964 to train as a nurse at Belfast City Hospital and qualified there as Registered Nurse in 1967 and later in 1970 at the Royal Maternity Hospital as a State Certified Midwife. She worked in hospitals in Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Great Britain and mainland Europe.
After living and working abroad (which gave her a long-term interest in third world development), she returned to Northern Ireland to work as a staff nurse in the Casualty department at the Mater Hospital, Crumlin Road, at the height of the Troubles. Her experiences there made an indelible impression and strengthened her belief that political change must be made by peaceful means. She was active in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Campaign of the early 1970s.
She married Eamon Hanna in 1973. They have four adult children and they have lived and worked in Belfast, Dublin, Galway and the United States. In 1987 Carmel returned to work as a nurse and subsequently transferred to social services working for the South & East Belfast Trust assessing domiciliary care for the elderly. She also became an officer for her trade union, NIPSA.
...
Wikipedia