Dundee law graduate John Finucane to be next Lord Mayor of Belfast
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John Finucane
Belfast solicitor John Finucane, son of murdered human rights lawyer Pat Finucane, has been nominated by Sinn Féin to be the next Lord Mayor of Belfast.
Mr Finucane, a graduate of Dundee Law School and partner at Finucane Toner Solicitors, was elected to Belfast City Council as a Sinn Féin candidate in the Castle District Electoral Area in this month’s local elections.
He previously ran for election as the Sinn Féin candidate for the Westminster constituency of Belfast North in the 2017 snap election, but was around 2,000 votes short of victory.
Mr Finucane, alongside other members of his family, has long campaigned for the UK government to hold an inquiry into his father’s 1989 murder amid allegations of British security forces colluding with loyalist paramilitaries.
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