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Oliver McMullan (born 22 March 1952) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician, who was elected as an MLA to the Northern Ireland Assembly to represent the East Antrim constituency in May 2011. He was also elected to Larne Borough Council in the 2011 local elections.〔(UTV Live council election results 2011 )〕 McMullan was active in business life in his native Cushendall, where he owned a local pub.〔(General Election 2010 : Northern Ireland candidates, BBC.co.uk 21 April 2010 ) accessed 7 May 2011〕 He entered politics in 1993 when he was elected as an Independent to Moyle District Council, topping the poll.〔(Moyle council election results )〕 He also topped the poll in the same elections in 1997〔 and 2001,〔 standing as either an Independent or Independent Nationalist. McMullan headed the ''Independent McMullan'' list in the 1996 elections to the Northern Ireland Forum. He received 670 votes (2%) in North Antrim,〔(North Antrim election results, ark.ac.uk ) accessed 7 May 2011〕 with the list receiving 927 votes (0.12%) across Northern Ireland, meaning that no candidates were elected. McMullan failed to be elected in the same constituency in the 1998 elections, where he polled 1.0%. He joined Sinn Féin before the 2003 Assembly elections and stood unsuccessfully for the party in East Antrim in those elections and the 2007 Assembly elections. He was re-elected to Moyle District Council in 2005, serving as the first Sinn Féin chairman of the council〔 and a board member on the North Eastern Education and Library Board.〔 He was also a member of Sinn Féin's All Ireland Advisory Committees for Agriculture, Tourism and Rural Development. 〔(Newtownabbey Times, 21 February 2007 )〕 After 18 years as a member of Moyle Council, McMullan contested and won a seat on Larne Borough Council in May 2011, standing in and topping the poll in the Coast Road electoral area.〔(The election race begins ) ''The Ballycastle Chronicle, 14 April 2011''〕 In doing so he became the first Sinn Féin councillor on the predominantly unionist council. In November 2011 he resigned from the council, enabling fellow Sinn Féin member James McKeown to take his place.〔(McMullan resigns from Larne council ) ''Larne Times''〕 Just over a week after gaining election he received a death threat from a group claiming to be called the 'Loyalist Action Force'.〔(Sinn Fein MLA Oliver McMullan sent death threat by post ) ''BBC News''〕 McMullan spoke about a family that had been the target of several racist attacks in Glenarm, saying, "There has been a petrol bomb thrown at the house and there has been another occasion when acid was poured over their vehicle." In 2013 he revealed he was suffering from prostate cancer.〔Suzanne McGonagle, "I'm fighting cancer says MLA", Irish News, 24 August 2013〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oliver McMullan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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