Back

Emma Rogan

Emma Rogan
Member of the Legislative Assembly
for South Down
In office
20 June 2017 – 28 March 2022
Preceded byChris Hazzard
Succeeded byCathy Mason
Personal details
Born (1986-06-27) 27 June 1986 (age 38)
NationalityIrish
Political partySinn Féin

Emma Rogan (born 27 June 1986)[1] is a former Sinn Féin politician from Loughinisland, County Down, in Northern Ireland. She attended St Colmcille's High School, Crossgar.[2]

She served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the South Down constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly from June 2017 to 2022.[3]

Rogan was co-opted to the Assembly to replace Chris Hazzard,[4] a Sinn Féin MLA and former Minister for Infrastructure. Hazzard was elected at the June 2017 Westminster election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Down.[5] Sinn Féin's South Down cumann then selected Rogan to fill his place.[6]

On her selection as MLA, Rogan described herself "a Loughinisland woman through and through", but that she would be "an MLA for all of South Down".[7] She said that her initial priorities included protecting services in the Downe Hospital in Downpatrick, and "to restore Downpatrick as a thriving county town".[7][4]

In May 2021, Sinn Féin announced its two candidates for South Down at the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election.[8] Rogan was not one of the two, having been deselected in favour of Councillor Cathy Mason.[8][9]

In March 2022, the Belfast Telegraph reported that Rogan had not spoken in the Assembly for over a year.[10] In the same period she had attended no meeting of two committees on which she sat, missing 45 meetings of the Justice Committee and 13 meetings of the Audit Committee.[10] Rogan did not respond to queries from the Belfast Telegraph.[11]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference nia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Emma Rogan". Sinn Fein. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference newmlas was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference co-opted was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference hazzard was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference down was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference daughter was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference irish-news-rogan-deselected was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference bbc-rogan-deselected was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference rogan-absent was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference rogan-no-reply was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

Developed by StudentB