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Patsy McGlone

Patsy McGlone
MLA
Patsy McGlone.jpg
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for Mid-Ulster
Assumed office
26 November 2003
Preceded by Denis Haughey
Personal details
Nationality Irish
Political party SDLP
Spouse(s) Geraldine McGlone
Website Official Website

Patsy McGlone (born 8 July 1959) is an Irish politician from Ballinderry in Northern Ireland. He is a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Mid Ulster, and former Deputy Leader of the SDLP (2010–11). He has been an MLA since 2003. On 12 May 2016, McGlone was elected as Deputy Speaker of The Northern Ireland Assembly.

From 1993 to 2009, McGlone was also Councillor in Cookstown District Council. He was chairman of the council in 2002-03 and 2005-06. In 1996 he was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum from Mid-Ulster.

While canvassing for McGlone for the 2011 local and assembly elections, election workers had their car attacked with a petrol bomb by loyalists in Coagh.

He was a candidate for the leadership of the SDLP in 2011, after announcing in July that he would stand against party leader Margaret Ritchie.



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