Sinn Fein select new Foyle MLAs after convention

written by cassoscoop September 8, 2021

Sinn Fein’s Ciara Ferguson

SINN Fein in Derry have chosen Ciara Ferguson and Padraig Delargy as their new MLAs for the Foyle constituency.

They were selected a party convention held in the Everglades Hotel tonight.

They will be co-opted on to the Assembly to replace outoing MLAs Martina Anderson and Karen Mullan who will stand down in the coming days.

The pair were ousted after an internal party review.

Ciara Ferguson, from Strabane in Co Tyrone, is project manager for the Greater Shantallow Area Partnership community organisation in Derry.

Pádraig Delargy is a 25-year-old party activist from Derry who is a keen advocate of supporting and promoting the Irish language.

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