Dominic Bradley


Dominic Bradley is an Irish former Social Democratic and Labour Party politician who was a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Newry and Armagh from 2003 to 2016. As an MLA, he was the SDLP Spokesperson for Education and for the Irish language.
A graduate of St. Paul's High School, Bessbrook, Bradley is a teacher from County Armagh. He acted as Director of Elections for Seamus Mallon MP and for the SDLP in the Newry and Mourne District Council area.
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Bradley is an Irish language speaker, and is education editor of the daily newspaper Lá Nua. He writes in Irish for a number of other newspapers. In October 2011, he was sanctioned by speaker for talking too long without asking a question.

Education

He studied at Queen's University, Belfast for a joint honours degree in English Literature and Language. After his degree he stayed on at Belfast and studied for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education. As a mature student he went to the University of Ulster where he studied for and attained a master's degree in Irish Language and Literature.