Deirdre Hargey

Deirdre Hargey
Minister for the Economy
Interim
8 May 2024 – 28 May 2024
First MinisterMichelle O'Neill
Preceded byConor Murphy
Succeeded byConor Murphy
Minister for Communities
In office
16 December 2020 – 27 October 2022
First MinisterArlene Foster
Paul Givan
Vacant
Preceded byCarál Ní Chuilín
Succeeded byGordon Lyons (2024)
In office
11 January 2020 – 14 June 2020
First MinisterArlene Foster
Preceded byPaul Givan (2017)
Succeeded byCarál Ní Chuilín
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for Belfast South
Assumed office
9 January 2020
Preceded byMáirtín Ó Muilleoir
75th Lord Mayor of Belfast
In office
1 June 2018 – 1 June 2019
DeputyEmmet McDonough-Brown
Preceded byNuala McAllister
Succeeded byJohn Finucane
Member of
Belfast City Council
In office
22 March 2014 – 9 January 2020
Preceded byDistrict created
Succeeded byJohn Gormley[1]
ConstituencyBotanic
In office
October 2010 – 22 May 2014
Preceded byAlex Maskey
Succeeded byDistrict abolished
ConstituencyLaganbank
Personal details
Born1980
Belfast, Northern Ireland
NationalityIrish
Political partySinn Féin
OccupationPolitician

Deirdre Hargey is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Belfast South since 2020. She previously served as Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2018 to 2019, and as a Belfast City Councillor for the Botanic (formerly Laganbank) DEA from 2011 to 2020. Hargey was Minister for Communities from 2020 to 2022 and briefly served as interim Minister for the Economy in May 2024.

  1. ^ "Sinn Fein's John Gormley to replace Deirdre Hargey on Belfast City Council". Belfast Telegraph. 7 January 2020. Retrieved 8 May 2022.