Aoife Finnegan

Aoife Finnegan is an Irish Sinn Féin politician, who has served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Newry and Armagh since February 2025.^[1]

Aoife Finnegan MLA
Finnegan in 2024
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Newry and Armagh
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 February 2025
Preceded by	Conor Murphy
Member of Newry, Mourne and Down District Council
In office 28 May 2020 – 9 February 2025
Preceded by	Terry Hearty
Constituency	Slieve Gullion
Personal details
Born	20 June 1988 (age 36) Crossmaglen, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Political party	Sinn Féin
Occupation	Politician

She previously served as a councillor for the Slieve Gullion DEA on Newry, Mourne and Down District Council from 2020 to 2025.

Career

Finnegan has been a Sinn Féin activist since she was a teenager, and worked in Conor Murphy MLA’s constituency office for many years.^[2]

In May 2020, Finnegan was co-opted onto Newry, Mourne and Down District Council to replace Terry Hearty as a Slieve Gullion councillor.^[3][4] She was re-elected in 2023 with the highest number of first preference votes in the Slieve Gullion DEA.^[5]

In February 2025, Finnegan replaced Conor Murphy as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Newry and Armagh, after he was elected to the Seanad Éireann.^[1][6] She was unanimously endorsed by Sinn Féin members at a convention on 8 February.^[7]

Personal life

Finnegan is a Crossmaglen native, and she currently lives there with her husband and children.^[2]