Declan Kearney
Declan Kearney is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who was elected as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly to represent the South Antrim constituency at the 2016 election.
Originally from Antrim, he is the son of Oliver and Brigid Kearney. He lived in Derry at the time of his election.
Prior to his election, Kearney served as National Chairman of Sinn Féin, in which capacity he apologised "for all the lives lost during the Troubles". His brother, Ciarán Kearney, husband of Jane, is the son-in-law of the late Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and Sinn Féin politician Denis Donaldson, who was assassinated near Glenties in County Donegal after having been exposed as a British agent.
