Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Máirtín Ó Muilleoir (born Martin Millar; 1 January 1959) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician, author, publisher and businessman, who served as the 58th Lord Mayor of Belfast for the 2013-14. One sibling is writer, blogger and Huffington Post columnist Adrian Millar. and another is journalist and editor Gerry Millar/Gearóid Ó Muilleoir (The Belfast Telegraph).A graduate of St. Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School and Queen's University Belfast, Ó Muilleoir entered politics in 1985, when he stood as a Sinn Féin candidate for the Upper Falls area, finishing as runner-up to Alliance Party councillor Pip Glendinning.When Glendinning resigned her seat two years later, Ó Muilleoir won the resulting by-election in October 1987. During his time on the council, he started a number of legal actions over what he claimed was discrimination by the Unionist-dominated council, detailing these experiences in his book, The Dome of Delight. He was re-elected at the 1989 and 1993 local elections, retiring at the 1997 local elections to concentrate on his business career.In 1997, he became part-owner of the Andersonstown News, which subsequently developed the New York-based Irish Echo. A fluent Irish speaker, he has interests in other Irish and American businesses. He served as a temporary director of Northern Ireland Water.He re-entered politics in 2011, when he was elected as a Belfast City Councillor for Balmoral, South Belfast, gaining the seat previously held by Jim Kirkpatrick of the Democratic Unionist Party, and was elected Lord Mayor in 2013, serving a one year term.In 2014, he was co-opted as an MLA into the Northern Ireland Assembly. He stood unsuccessfully in Belfast South in the 2015 United Kingdom general election, losing to the Social Democratic and Labour Party incumbent, Alasdair McDonnell."@en }
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- Máirtín_Ó_Muilleoir abstract "Máirtín Ó Muilleoir (born Martin Millar; 1 January 1959) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician, author, publisher and businessman, who served as the 58th Lord Mayor of Belfast for the 2013-14. One sibling is writer, blogger and Huffington Post columnist Adrian Millar. and another is journalist and editor Gerry Millar/Gearóid Ó Muilleoir (The Belfast Telegraph).A graduate of St. Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School and Queen's University Belfast, Ó Muilleoir entered politics in 1985, when he stood as a Sinn Féin candidate for the Upper Falls area, finishing as runner-up to Alliance Party councillor Pip Glendinning.When Glendinning resigned her seat two years later, Ó Muilleoir won the resulting by-election in October 1987. During his time on the council, he started a number of legal actions over what he claimed was discrimination by the Unionist-dominated council, detailing these experiences in his book, The Dome of Delight. He was re-elected at the 1989 and 1993 local elections, retiring at the 1997 local elections to concentrate on his business career.In 1997, he became part-owner of the Andersonstown News, which subsequently developed the New York-based Irish Echo. A fluent Irish speaker, he has interests in other Irish and American businesses. He served as a temporary director of Northern Ireland Water.He re-entered politics in 2011, when he was elected as a Belfast City Councillor for Balmoral, South Belfast, gaining the seat previously held by Jim Kirkpatrick of the Democratic Unionist Party, and was elected Lord Mayor in 2013, serving a one year term.In 2014, he was co-opted as an MLA into the Northern Ireland Assembly. He stood unsuccessfully in Belfast South in the 2015 United Kingdom general election, losing to the Social Democratic and Labour Party incumbent, Alasdair McDonnell.".