Patrick Doherty is an Irish politician and abstentionist Member of Parliament for West Tyrone.
Career
Doherty served as Vice President of Sinn Féin from 1988 to 2009, when Mary Lou McDonald became the party"s new Vice President. Born in Glasgow, Doherty"s parents were from County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland. Doherty moved to Donegal in 1968, shortly before the Troubles broke out across the Irish border.
He has also stood for election in the Republic of Ireland, in the constituency of Donegal North–East in 1989, 1996 (by-election) and 1997 and also in the Connacht–Ulster constituency in the European Union elections in 1989 and 1994.
Membership
Provisional Irish Republican Army. 53rd United Kingdom Parliament. 54th United Kingdom Parliament.
55th United Kingdom Parliament.
56th United Kingdom Parliament. 1st Northern Ireland Assembly.
2nd Northern Ireland Assembly. 3rd Northern Ireland Assembly.
4th Northern Ireland Assembly]
He was a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for the same constituency from June 1998 to June 2012.
He has been an abstentionist Sinn Féin Member of Parliament of the British parliament for West Tyrone since 2001, as well as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly since the 1998 elections. In May 2002, using parliamentary privilege, Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament David Burnside named Doherty as a member of the Ireland Republican Army Army Council.