Declan McAleer

Declan McAleer is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who was selected by his party as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly to represent the West Tyrone constituency in June 2012.

Political career

He replaced his party colleague Pat Doherty, an abstentionist MP in the parliament of the United Kingdom, who had resigned from the Northern Ireland Assembly as part of Sinn Féin's policy of abolishing double jobbing. He previously served on a local council.