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.
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.