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Dominic Bradley (
Irish Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
''Doiminic Ó Brolcháin'' ) is an Irish former Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician who was a
Member of the Legislative Assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly such as that of a state, province, or territory of a country. S ...
(MLA) for
Newry and Armagh Newry and Armagh can refer to: *Newry and Armagh (Assembly constituency) *Newry and Armagh (UK Parliament constituency) Newry and Armagh is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Mickey Brady ...
from 2003 to 2016. As an MLA, he was the SDLP Spokesperson for Education and for the Irish language. A graduate of
St. Paul's High School, Bessbrook St. Paul's High School, Bessbrook( ga, Ardscoil Naomh Pól, An Sruthán) is an all-ability, co-educational secondary school located on the outskirts of Bessbrook near Newry, County Armagh. It is a Catholic-maintained day school for boys and gi ...
, Bradley is a teacher from
County Armagh County Armagh (, named after its county town, Armagh) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the southern shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and ha ...
. He acted as Director of Elections for Seamus Mallon MP and for the SDLP in the Newry and Mourne District Council area. Membership: * Member of the National Executive Association for School's Drama * Founder of Tí Chulainn Cultural Activity Centre, An Mullach Bán. * Member of National Executive National Association of Teachers of Irish. Bradley is an
Irish language Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and wa ...
speaker, and is education editor of the daily newspaper ''
Lá Nua ''Lá'' (Irish for "Day"; later known as ''Lá Nua'', Irish for "New Day") was an Irish-language daily newspaper based in Belfast. It was the first daily newspaper in Ireland to be published in Irish. ''Lá Nua'' belonged to the Belfast Media Gr ...
''. He writes in Irish for a number of other newspapers. In October 2011, he was sanctioned by speaker for talking too long without asking a question.


Education

He studied at Queen's University, Belfast for a joint honours degree in English Literature and Language. After his degree he stayed on at Belfast and studied for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education. As a mature student he went to the
University of Ulster sco, Ulstèr Universitie , image = Ulster University coat of arms.png , caption = , motto_lang = , mottoeng = , latin_name = Universitas Ulidiae , established = 1865 – Magee College 1953 - Magee Un ...
where he studied for and attained a master's degree in Irish Language and Literature.


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Bradley on the SDLP website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bradley, Dominic 1960 births Living people People from Bessbrook Social Democratic and Labour Party MLAs Alumni of Ulster University Alumni of Queen's University Belfast Northern Ireland MLAs 2003–2007 Northern Ireland MLAs 2007–2011 Northern Ireland MLAs 2011–2016 Members of Newry and Mourne District Council Educators from Northern Ireland People educated at St Paul's High School, Bessbrook 20th-century educators from Northern Ireland