Pat Doherty (Northern Ireland politician)
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Pat Doherty | |
|---|---|
 Doherty in 2014 | |
| Vice President of Sinn Féin | |
| In office 10 February 1988 – 22 February 2009 | |
| President | Gerry Adams |
| Preceded by | John Joe McGirl |
| Succeeded by | Mary Lou McDonald |
| Member of Parliament for West Tyrone | |
| In office 7 June 2001 – 3 May 2017 | |
| Preceded by | William Thompson |
| Succeeded by | Barry McElduff |
| Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for West Tyrone | |
| In office 25 June 1998 – June 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Declan McAleer |
| Northern Ireland Forum Member | |
| In office 30 May 1996 – 25 April 1998 | |
| Preceded by | New forum |
| Succeeded by | Forum dissolved |
| Constituency | Top-up list |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 July 1945 |
| Party | Sinn Féin |
| Relations | Hugh Doherty (brother) |
| Website | Pat Doherty MP |
Patrick Doherty (born 18 July 1945) is a retired Sinn Féin politician, who served as the abstentionist Member of Parliament (MP) for West Tyrone from 2001 to 2017. He was also a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for West Tyrone from 1998 to June 2012. Doherty served as Vice President of Sinn Féin[1] from 1988 to 2009, when Mary Lou McDonald became the party's new vice president.[2]
Doherty was born in Glasgow; his parents were from County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland. He moved to Donegal in 1968, shortly before the Troubles broke out across the Irish border. He was an abstentionist Sinn Féin Member of Parliament of the British parliament for West Tyrone from 2001 to 2017, as well as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly from the 1998 elections until 2012. He has also stood for election in the Republic of Ireland, in the constituency of Donegal North-East in 1989, 1996 (a by-election) and 1997, and also in the Connacht–Ulster constituency in the EU elections in 1989 and 1994.[3]
In May 2002, using parliamentary privilege, Ulster Unionist Party MP David Burnside named Doherty as a member of the IRA Army Council.[4]
