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Martina Anderson

Martina Anderson
Member of the European Parliament
for Northern Ireland
In office
12 June 2012 – 31 January 2020
Preceded byBairbre de Brún
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Junior Minister Assisting the Deputy First Minister
In office
16 May 2011 – 11 June 2012
Serving with Jonathan Bell
Deputy FMMartin McGuinness
Preceded byGerry Kelly
Succeeded byJennifer McCann
Member of the Legislative Assembly
for Foyle
In office
10 February 2020[1] – 13 September 2021
Preceded byRaymond McCartney
Succeeded byPádraig Delargy
Ciara Ferguson
In office
7 March 2007 – 11 June 2012
Preceded byMitchel McLaughlin
Succeeded byMaeve McLaughlin
Personal details
Born (1962-04-16) 16 April 1962 (age 62)[1]
Derry, Northern Ireland
NationalityIrish[2]
Political partySinn Féin
SpousePaul Kavanagh
Websitemartinamep.eu

Martina Anderson (born 16 April 1962) is an Irish[2] former politician from Northern Ireland who served as Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Foyle from 2020 to 2021, and previously from 2007 to 2012. A member of Sinn Féin, she served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing Northern Ireland from 2012 to 2020.

She became involved in the Irish republican movement in the late 1970s and is a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer. In June 1986, she was convicted of conspiring to cause explosions and sentenced to life in prison.[3] She was released 13 years later as a condition of the Good Friday Agreement[3][4] and subsequently became involved in politics for Sinn Féin.

She was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2012, representing Foyle. She served in the Northern Ireland Executive as a Junior Minister at the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister from 2011 to 2012. In 2012, she became a Member of the European Parliament, and she was reelected in 2014 and in 2019. She left the European Parliament in 2020 and returned to the Northern Ireland Assembly.

  1. ^ a b "MLA Details: Ms Martina Anderson". Aims.niassembly.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 1 October 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Sinn Féin: Anderson gets Irish diplomatic passport". Derry Journal. 24 November 2014. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Beyond the Wire". Ireland's Own. 1996. Archived from the original on 9 December 2006. Retrieved 21 March 2007.
  4. ^ Martin Fletcher (11 November 1998). "200th release sparks anger". The Times.

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