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Catherine Nelson
Northern Irish politician
Catherine Nelson (born Catherine Seeley; 26 November 1987)[1] is a Sinn Féin politician from Northern Ireland. She was an MLA for Upper Bann from the 2016 election until 2017.[2]
Previously a schoolteacher at the non-denominational Belfast Boys' Model School, she resigned after allegedly enduring a campaign of harassment, which began after she was co-opted as a Sinn Féin councillor on Craigavon Borough Council in 2014. The Protestant Coalition opposed her employment at the school over her affiliation with Sinn Féin.[3]
On 16 January 2017, it was announced she would not seeking re-election at the 2017 assembly election and would return to work as a schoolteacher.[4]
In 2018, she was co-opted as a councillor onto Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council.[1]