The Baroness O'Loan | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2021 | |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 11 September 2009 Life peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | Nuala Patricia O'Loan 20 December 1951 Hertfordshire, England |
Political party | Crossbench |
Alma mater | King's College London |
Nuala Patricia O'Loan, Baroness O'Loan, DBE, MRIA (born 20 December 1951), is a public figure in Northern Ireland. From 1999 to 2007, she was the first Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. In July 2009, it was announced that she was to be appointed to the House of Lords[1] and she was so appointed in September 2009. In December 2010, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, appointed her as the chairman of its governing authority. She is a columnist with The Irish Catholic.