Patsy McGlone | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MLA |
Office: | Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly |
Term Start: | 12 May 2016 |
Term End: | 3 February 2024 |
Predecessor: | John Dallat |
Successor: | Steve Aiken |
Office1: | Deputy leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party |
Leader1: | Margaret Ritchie |
Term Start1: | 2010 |
Term End1: | 2011 |
Predecessor1: | Alasdair McDonnell |
Successor1: | Dolores Kelly |
Constituency Am2: | Mid Ulster |
Assembly2: | Northern Ireland |
Term Start2: | 26 November 2003 |
Predecessor2: | Denis Haughey |
Office3: | Member of Cookstown District Council |
Constituency3: | Ballinderry |
Term Start3: | 19 May 1993 |
Term End3: | 2009 |
Predecessor3: | Deidre Mayo |
Successor3: | John O'Neill |
Office4: | Member of the Northern Ireland Forum for Mid Ulster |
Term Start4: | 30 May 1996 |
Term End4: | 25 April 1998 |
Birth Date: | 8 July 1959 |
Birth Place: | Ballinderry, Northern Ireland |
Nationality: | Irish |
Party: | SDLP |
Spouse: | Geraldine McGlone |
Website: | Official Website |
Patsy McGlone (born 8 July 1959) is an Irish Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician who was Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly from 2016 to 2024. He also served as Deputy leader of the SDLP from 2010 to 2011.[1] McGlone has been a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Mid Ulster since 2003.[2]
From 1993 to 2009, McGlone was also Councillor in Cookstown District Council. He was chairman of the council in 2002–2003 and 2005–2006.In 1996 he was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum from Mid-Ulster.[3]
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.[4]
On 12 May 2016, McGlone was elected Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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.