Eugene McMenamin explained

Eugene McMenamin
Office:Member of Strabane District Council
Constituency:Mourne
Term Start:21 May 1997
Term End:22 May 2014
Predecessor:Mary McElroy
Successor:Council abolished
Constituency Am1:West Tyrone
Assembly1:Northern Ireland
Term Start1:25 June 1998
Term End1:7 March 2007
Predecessor1:New Creation
Successor1:Claire McGill
Birth Place:Strabane, Northern Ireland
Party:Independent (2011 - present)
Otherparty:SDLP (until 2011)

Eugene McMenamin (1947), is an Irish nationalist former politician from Northern Ireland, who was a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for West Tyrone from 1998 to 2007.

Career

In June 1998 he was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly as the first nationalist to be in government from Strabane in over 300 years. McMenamin was his party's spokesperson on Culture, Arts and Leisure from 1998 until 2003 and was in approx 2007 the Party Spokesperson on Western Development.

After being elected as Chairman of Strabane District Council in 2002, he was re-elected to the Assembly in November 2003 but lost his seat in 2007.

In the Northern Ireland Assembly, McMenamin served on numerous Committees:[1]

He stood as an independent candidate for West Tyrone in the Northern Ireland Assembly elections in 2011, but was not elected.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Biography_Eugene McMenamin . niassembly.gov.uk . 2006-08-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060823024115/http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/members/biogs_03/mcmenamin_e.htm . 2006-08-23 . dead . 2021-05-11.