Aisling Reilly

Aisling Reilly
MLA
Junior Minister Assisting the First Minister
Incumbent
Assumed office
3 February 2024
Serving with Pam Cameron
First MinisterMichelle O'Neill
Preceded byGary Middleton (2022)
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for West Belfast
Incumbent
Assumed office
19 October 2021
Preceded byFra McCann
Personal details
Political partySinn Féin
WebsiteAisling Reilly MLA

Aisling Reilly (Irish: Aisling Ní Raghallaigh[1]) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician, who has served as a Junior Minister in the Executive of the 7th Northern Ireland Assembly since 2024. She has served as a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Belfast West since 2021.

Career

Reilly was educated in Coláiste Feirste and speaks fluent Gaelic.[1]

Reilly was co-opted to the Northern Ireland Assembly in October 2021, replacing veteran MLA Fra McCann, as a Member for Belfast West.[2][3]

She was re-elected to the Assembly at the 2022 election.[4]

On 13 May 2022, Reilly became the first member of the Northern Ireland Assembly to give a full speech in the Irish language.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Nuachtlitir Choláiste Feirste" [Coláiste Feirste Newsletter]. Yumpu (in Irish). Coláiste Feirste. December 2012. p. 3.
  2. ^ "Handball champ selected by Sinn Féin to replace west Belfast MLA Fra McCann". The Irish News. 14 October 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Sinn Féin nominate Aisling Reilly as new West Belfast MLA". www.sinnfein.ie. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  4. ^ "Election 2022: More of the same from SF in West Belfast". News Letter. 7 May 2022.
  5. ^ "An chéad óráid go hiomlán i nGaeilge i Stormont". The Irish News. 13 May 2022. Retrieved 13 May 2022.


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