Eugene McMenamin | |
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Member of Strabane District Council | |
In office 21 May 1997 –22 May 2014 | |
Preceded by | Mary McElroy |
Succeeded by | Council abolished |
Constituency | Mourne |
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for West Tyrone | |
In office 25 June 1998 –7 March 2007 | |
Preceded by | New Creation |
Succeeded by | Claire McGill |
Personal details | |
Born | 1947 (age 76–77) Strabane,Northern Ireland |
Political party | Independent (2011 - present) |
Other political affiliations | 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[ citation needed ]. 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.
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