Rosaleen "Rosie" McCorley (born 14 January 1957) is a former Irish

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politician who was a

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(MLA) for Belfast West from 2012 to

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.Sinn Féin picks Rosie McCorley as new West Belfast MLA
BBC News, 24 June 2012.

Career

A former housing officer, in 1991, McCorley was jailed for 66 years for the attempted murder of an army officer and possession of explosives.
The Independent, 20 November 1999 While in prison she obtained a first-class honours degree in social sciences with the

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. She served eight years of her sentence before being released under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. She was the first female prisoner to be released following the agreement. After her release, she worked for Coiste na nIarchimí, an Irish republican ex-prisoners’ group, for eight years, before taking up a post as political adviser with Sinn Féin in 2007 working with MLAs

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and Pat Sheehan. In July 2012, she replaced her party colleague

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, an

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MP in the

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, who had resigned from the Northern Ireland Assembly as part of Sinn Féin's policy of abolishing

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. McCorley lost her seat at the 2016 Assembly election.NI Assembly election: More than a third of seats declared as counting continues
BBC News, 6 May 2016. She holds a diploma in Irish from the

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and a post-graduate diploma in Gaeilge agus Léann an Aistriúcháin from

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{{DEFAULTSORT:McCorley, Rosie 1957 births Living people Politicians from Belfast Sinn Féin MLAs Northern Ireland MLAs 2011–2016 Irish people convicted of attempted murder Republicans imprisoned during the Northern Ireland conflict Female members of the Northern Ireland Assembly