Education
Fitzwilliam College; Imperial College London.
politician Member of the Legislative Assembly of Northern Ireland
Fitzwilliam College; Imperial College London.
O'Loan was elected for the SDLP in the 2007 Assembly Elections. He was suspended by the SDLP after advocating a merger between the SDLP and Sinn Féin to form a single nationalist party. The SDLP had refused to make an electoral pact with Sinn Féin in the 2010 Westminster election.
In the May 2011 election, O'Loan ran as an SDLP candidate for re-election to the Assembly from North Antrim, but was eliminated in the last round of ballot-counting. Declan O'Loan is married to Nuala O'Loan, a former Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. He is also the Honorary Consul of Romania in Northern Ireland.
O'Loan studied at Imperial College London and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Secretary of the Association of SDLP Councillors
Chair of Ballymena Community Safety Partnership.
[3rd Northern Ireland Assembly]
He is a member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), but the party whip was withdrawn on 25 May 2010. Member of the Board of Ballymena Citizens Advice Bureau
Member of the Board of Ballymena Community Forum
Member of the Ballymena Local Strategy Partnership
Member of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council.