1. Nichola Mallon was born on 23 August 1979 and is a former politician from Northern Ireland who served as Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party from 2017 to 2022.
13 Facts About Nichola Mallon
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Nichola Mallon served as a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast North from 2016 to 2022 and as Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2014 to 2015.
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Nichola Mallon was elected as Deputy Leader of the SDLP in 2017.
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Nichola Mallon was appointed Minister for Infrastructure on 11 January 2020, before being removed from office after losing her seat at the 2022 Assembly election.
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Nichola Mallon's father was a printer and her mother was a dress-maker.
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Nichola Mallon grew up in the Ardoyne district of North Belfast.
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Nichola Mallon read Economics and Politics at Trinity College Dublin and graduated with a BA, followed by an MA in Comparative Ethnic Conflict from Queen's University Belfast.
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Nichola Mallon served as the Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2014 to 2015, the first female Irish nationalist politician to hold the position.
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Nichola Mallon was elected a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast North in 2016 and re-elected in 2017, increasing the SDLP vote to 5,431 first preferences.
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On 12 September 2017, Mallon was elected Deputy Leader of the SDLP.
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Nichola Mallon was appointed Minister for Infrastructure on 11 January 2020.
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Nichola Mallon failed to retain her seat at the 2022 Assembly election.
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Nichola Mallon is married to Brendan Scott and has three children, two daughters and a son.