Pat Convery

Patrick "Pat" Convery
55th Lord Mayor of Belfast
In office
June 2010 – 2011
Preceded by Naomi Long
Succeeded by Niall Ó Donnghaile
Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast
In office
2005–2006
Preceded by Joe O'Donnell
Succeeded by Ruth Patterson
Councillor on Belfast City Council
In office
2005–2006
Constituency Castle Electoral Area
Personal details
Born Belfast
Political party Independent (since 2017)
SDLP (till 2017)
Children 2
Website Official profile, SDLP.ie

Patrick Convery (born 1957), known as Pat Convery, is an Irish nationalist politician who sits as an independent Councillor on Belfast City Council.

Convery was elected Lord Mayor of Belfast on 1 June 2010, succeeding Naomi Long,[1] and served until his term ended in June 2011. He has represented the Castle area of North Belfast since being elected to Belfast City Council in June 2001.[2]

Convery was Vice-Chairperson of the SDLP, a Belfast Harbour Commissioner, a member of the North Belfast Partnership and a former Chairman of the Belfast District Policing Partnership. He served as Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2005-06. He stood for the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast North in 2003 and 2007, narrowly missing election on both occasions.

He was suspended from the SDLP in early April 2017 due to defying the party whip and abstaining in a vote regarding abortion in Northern Ireland. In June 2017 he formally resigned and left the SDLP, along with two other Belfast SDLP councillors.[3]

Family

Convery is married with two daughters, and lives in Belfast.

References

  1. ↑ "SDLP's Pat Convery replaces Naomi Long as Belfast mayor". BBC News. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "Lord Mayor - Belfast City Council". Belfastcity.gov.uk. 1 June 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  3. ↑ Breen, Suzanne (19 June 2017). "SDLP suffers new blow as City Hall trio quits party in abortion row". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
Civic offices
Preceded by
Joe O'Donnell		 Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast
2005–2006		 Succeeded by
Ruth Patterson
Preceded by
Naomi Long		 Lord Mayor of Belfast
2010–2011		 Succeeded by
Niall Ó Donnghaile
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