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Seamus Mallon
About Seamus Mallon
Seamus Mallon was appointed to the Board in February 2006. He was elected to Armagh District Council in 1973, to the then Northern Ireland Assembly (1973-74) and to the Northern Ireland Convention (1975- 76). He was a member of Seanad Éireann in 1981. From 1986 to 2005 he was MP for Newry and Armagh at Westminster. He was Deputy Leader of the SDLP and, subsequent to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in April 1998, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland.
Seamus Mallon was reappointed to the Board in 2011