Pat Doherty

Infobox MP
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name = Pat Doherty
honorific-suffix = MLA, MP


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constituency_MP2 = West Tyrone
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term_start2 = 7 June 2001
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majority2 = 5,005 (11.5%)
predecessor2 = William Thompson
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constituency_AM3 = West Tyrone
assembly3 = Northern Ireland
term_start3 = 25 June 1998
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birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland
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party = Sinn Féin
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website = [http://www.sinnfeinonline.com/representatives/383 Sinn Féin]
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Patrick "Pat" Doherty (Irish: Pádraig Ó Dochartaigh, [Surnames in Ireland, Seán E. Quinn, Irish Genealogy Press, Dublin, 2000, ISBN 1 871509 39 4, pg. 77] [ [http://www.hoganstand.com/general/identity/names.htm Hoganstand.com] ] ) (born 18 July 1945) is an Irish Republican politician and abstentionist Member of Parliament for West Tyrone. He is a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for the same constituency and has been since 25 June 1998. Doherty is the current Vice President of Sinn Féin, [ [http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/98fst.htm Fermanagh and South Tyrone 1998 ] ] .

Early life

Born in Glasgow, Doherty's parents were from County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland. Doherty, known as" "Smiler", moved to Donegal in 1968, shortly before the Troubles broke out across the border. He has been an abstentionist Sinn Féin Member of Parliament of the British parliament for West Tyrone since 2001, as well as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly since the 1998 elections. Doherty has been Vice-President of Sinn Féin since 1988. He has also stood for election in the Republic of Ireland, in the constituency of Donegal North East in 1989 and in the Connacht-Ulster constituency in the EU elections in 1989 and 1994. [cite web | title = Pat Doherty MP | author = | url = http://www.sinnfein.ie/gaelic/elections/candidate/7 | publisher = Sinn Féin | date = | accessdate = 2007-03-27]

In Government

In May 2002 using parliamentary privilege Ulster Unionist Party MP David Burnside named Doherty as a member of the IRA army council. [cite web | title = House of Commons Hansard Debates for 26 May 2002 (pt 8) | author = | url = http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo020326/debtext/20326-08.htm | publisher = House of Commons | date = 26 May, 2002 | accessdate = 2007-03-27] His brother Hugh Doherty was part of the IRA's Balcombe Street Gang. [cite web | title = Balcombe Street gang to be freed | author = | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/314963.stm| publisher = BBC | date = 9 April, 1999 | accessdate = 2007-03-27]

References

External links

* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-1422,00.html Guardian Unlimited Politics - ask Aristotle: Pat Doherty]
* [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/pat_doherty/west_tyrone TheyWorkForYou.com - Pat Doherty MP]