Dara O'Hagan is a nationalist politician in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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. She was elected in 1998 to the Northern Ireland Assembly

Northern Ireland Assembly

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 as a Sinn Féin

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 member for Upper Bann

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O'Hagan has obtained a BA (Hons) Combined Humanities (History and Politics) from the University of Ulster

University of Ulster

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 and an MSc in Irish Politics and a PhD from Queens University, Belfast.

Her father was prominent republican Joe B. O'Hagan.