Catherine Seeley | |
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Seeley in 2015
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Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Upper Bann |
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In office May 2016 – January 2017 |
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Preceded by | Dolores Kelly |
Succeeded by | Vacant |
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Born |
Lurgan, Northern Ireland |
26 November 1987
Nationality | Irish |
Political party | Sinn Féin |
Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast |
Profession | Teacher |
Catherine Seeley (born 26 November 1987) is a Sinn Féin politician from Northern Ireland. She was an MLA for Upper Bann from the 2016 election until 2017.
Previously a schoolteacher at the non-denominational Belfast Boys' Model School, she resigned after allegedly enduring a campaign of harassment, which began after she was co-opted as a Sinn Féin councillor on Craigavon Borough Council in 2014. The Protestant Coalition opposed her employment at the school over her affiliation with Sinn Féin.
On 16 January 2017, it was announced she would not seeking re-election at the 2017 assembly election and would return to work as a schoolteacher.