Gerard Adams is an Irish republican politician who was the president of Sinn Féin between 13 November 1983 and 10 February 2018,and served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Louth from 2011 to 2020. From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011,he followed the policy of abstentionism as a Member of Parliament (MP) of the British Parliament for the Belfast West constituency.
Robert Thomas William McCrea,Baron McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician,Christian singer and retired Free Presbyterian minister from Northern Ireland. As a politician,he represented South Antrim and Mid Ulster as their Member of Parliament (MP),representing Mid Ulster from 1983 to 1997;then South Antrim between 2000 and 2001,and then again from 2005 to 2015.
Mid Ulster is a parliamentary constituency in the UK House of Commons. The current MP is Francie Molloy of Sinn Féin.
Francis Joseph Sean Hughes was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Bellaghy,County Londonderry,Northern Ireland. Hughes was the most wanted man in Northern Ireland until his arrest following a shoot-out with the British Army in which a British soldier was killed. At his trial,he was sentenced to a total of 83 years' imprisonment;he died during the 1981 Irish hunger strike in HM Prison Maze. Hughes was one of 22 Irish republicans who died on hunger-strike between 1917 and 1981.
Magherafelt is a town and civil parish in County Londonderry,Northern Ireland. It had a population of 9,071 at the 2021 Census. It is the biggest town in the south of the county and is the social,economic and political hub of the area. It is part of Mid-Ulster District.
Davy Hyland is an Irish republican former politician who was a Sinn Fein Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Newry and Armagh from 2003 to 2007.
Francis Joseph Molloy is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been the abstentionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Ulster since 2013. He was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Mid Ulster from 1998 to 2013.
Columba Barry McElduff is an Irish Sinn Féin politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the West Tyrone UK parliament constituency. He was also a Member of the Legislative Assembly in the Northern Ireland Assembly from its creation in 1998 until his election as MP in 2017. He resigned his seat on 16 January 2018 after publishing a video of himself balancing a Kingsmill loaf on his head,on the date of the anniversary of the Kingsmill massacre.
Fra McCann(born 19 June 1953) is a retired Irish Sinn Féin politician and former Republican prisoner.
Carál NíChuilín,formerly known as Caroline Cullen,is an Irish Sinn Féin politician and former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer serving as the Principal Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly since 2024. She has been a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast North since 2007 and served in the Northern Ireland Executive as Minister of Culture,Arts and Leisure until 2016. On 15 June 2020,she was appointed Minister for Communities on a temporary basis,due to the health of the previous minister,Deirdre Hargey.
Jennifer McCann is an Irish republican former politician in Northern Ireland,who was elected in 2007 to the Northern Ireland Assembly as a Sinn Féin member for Belfast West. She resigned from the Assembly in December 2016.
John Kelly was an Irish republican politician in Northern Ireland. He joined the Irish Republican Army in the 1950s,and was a founder member and a leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the early 1970s.
The Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. In common with all other Northern Irish unionist parties,the TUV's political programme has as its sine qua non the preservation of Northern Ireland's place within the United Kingdom. A founding precept of the party is that "nothing which is morally wrong can be politically right".
Patrick "Patsy" Groogan is an Irish republican politician.
Billy Leonard is an Irish republican retired politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Londonderry from 2010 to 2011. A former Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) officeholder,he then joined Sinn Féin,but is now an Independent Republican.
Seán Lynch MLA is an Irish republican Sinn Féin politician and a former MLA for the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone. He was a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) leader in the Maze Prison.
A by-election for the UK House of Commons constituency of Mid Ulster in Northern Ireland was held on 7 March 2013. The election was triggered by the resignation of Martin McGuinness,who had been elected to the seat in 1997 as the Sinn Féin candidate. The election was won by Francie Molloy,also of Sinn Féin.
Linda Dillon is an Irish Sinn Féin politician from Northern Ireland. She has been an MLA for Mid Ulster since 2016.
A by-election was held in the UK Parliament constituency of West Tyrone on 3 May 2018,following the resignation of Barry McElduff,who had been the Member of Parliament (MP) since 2017. McElduff had become embroiled in a social media controversy which had resulted in his suspension from Sinn Féin on 8 January. He announced his resignation on 15 January 2018.
Emma Sheerin is an Irish Sinn Féin politician from Draperstown,County Londonderry,Northern Ireland. Since 2018 she has been MLA for Mid Ulster.
