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06 Sept 2025

AE22 FOYLE: Final list of candidates confirmed

Nominations for selection closed this evening.

FOYLE: Final list of election candidates confirmed

A selection of the candidates for Foyle.

Pádraig Delargy (Sinn Féin)

Co-opted in September 2021 to replace Karen Mullan after the sitting MLA was forced to step down after an internal review by the party, Delargy is among Stormont's youngest members.

The 25-year-old was a teacher before making the move into full-time politics and is an Irish speaker who helped establish the Patricia Hughes Bursary Scheme in memory of his aunt in 2018.

Sinn Féin will be hoping the former St Columb's pupil can help reverse some of the electoral damage done by the party's 2019 Westminster performance.

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