Catherine Nelson (born Catherine Seeley, 26 November 1987) is a

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politician from

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. She was an MLA for Upper Bann from the

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until 2017. 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

councillor on

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in 2014. The

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opposed her employment at the school over her affiliation with

. 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."Sinn Féin's Catherine Seeley will not stand in next Assembly election"
ITV News. 16 January 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017. In 2018, she was co-opted as a councillor onto

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