Francie Molloy

Infobox Politician
name=Francie Molloy MLA


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term_start=2003
term_end=
predecessor=
successor=Incumbent
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birth_place=County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
constituency=Mid-Ulster
party=Sinn Féin
office=MLA
spouse=
website= [http://www.sinnfein.ie/elections/candidate/29 Francie Molloy MLA]

Francie Molloy ( Irish "Proinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh") MLA is a Sinn Féin politician and a deputy speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

He first stood for Sinn Féin in Fermanagh and South Tyrone in the 1982 Assembly Elections finishing as runner-up 542 votes behind the DUP candidate with over 1400 SDLP votes non-transferable. He was then elected to Dungannon council in 1985 representing the Coalisland area. He retired from the council in 1989 but was re-elected in 1993 and has been a councillor since then.

Molloy stood unsuccessfully for Sinn Féin in the European election, 1994.

Molloy was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996 representing Mid-Ulster and then for the same constituency to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998, 2003 and 2007.

In late November 2007, Mr Molloy was accused by DUP's David Simpson, under parliamentary privilege in the House of Commons, as a police informant and someone who took up an active role in the murder of RUC reservist Frederick 'Eric' Lutton, a 40-year-old father-of-two, was shot dead on May 1, 1979, near Moy in Co Armagh. The IRA claimed responsibility for killing but Mr Molloy denied his involvement

External links

* [http://www.sinnfein.ie/elections/candidate/29 Profile from Sinn Féin website]
* [http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/members/biogs_03/molloy_f.htm Profile from Northern Ireland Assembly website]
* [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/informer-molloy-is-linked-to-ira-killing-13496414.html Informant Story from the Belfast Telegraph