Career
Dougan is a longtime resident of Maghera, is also a campaigner for pre-school education provision and an avid Gaelic Athletic Association supporter. She is a mother of 5 children and the sister-in-law of the late former Irish National Liberation Army leader, Dominic McGlinchey. On 1 January 2007, she announced that she would not be seeking re-selection for the 2007 Assembly election.
In a statement on 4 January 2007, she said: "I have decided not to put my name forward for re-selection due to both personal reasons and concerns I have over the direction Sinn Féin is taking on the policing issue," she said.
She announced that she had resigned from Sinn Féin and became an Independent Modern Language Association effective on 15 January 2007. She did not stand at the 2007 assembly election.
