Career
He first stood for Sinn Féin in Fermanagh and South Tyrone in the 1982 Assembly Elections, finishing sixth in the five-seat constituency. He was then elected to Dungannon council in 1985 representing the Torrent electoral area, centred on Coalisland. 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 2005, Molloy was temporarily suspended from Sinn Féin after publicly disagreeing with the party policy on eliminating many district councils, including the Dungannon Council of which he was a member.
The by election took place on 7 March 2013. The Ireland Republican Army had taken responsibility for it on the basis he was an RUC reservist.
The investigation came to nothing, and Simpson claimed this was because Molloy was subsequently coerced into becoming a police informant, providing information that helped break up the Ireland Republican Army"s East Tyrone brigade.
Molloy denied the allegations at the time, and challenged anyone to repeat them outside of Parliament so that he could take legal action (the original speech being subject to parliamentary privilege and thus not actionable). The UUP leader Mike Nesbitt said he had been unaware of the speech and that it had played no part in Lutton"s selection. Lutton also denied the claims were behind his decision to stand.
In the aftermath of the British vote to launch air strikes in Syria against Islamic State he caused controversy by calling David Cameron a terrorist and in stating "Brits back to what they do best, Murder." He and Sinn Féin refused to apologise.
