# Aisling Reilly

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{{Short description|Junior Minister at the Northern Ireland Executive Office since 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| office              = [Junior Minister Assisting the First Minister](/source/Junior_Minister_(Northern_Ireland))
| term_start          = 3 February 2024
| term_end            = 
| first_minister       = [Michelle O'Neill](/source/Michelle_O'Neill)
| predecessor         = [Gary Middleton](/source/Gary_Middleton) (2022)
| successor           = 
| assembly1           = Northern Ireland
| constituency_AM1    = [West Belfast](/source/West_Belfast_(Assembly_constituency))
| predecessor1        = [Fra McCann](/source/Fra_McCann)
| party               = [Sinn Féin](/source/Sinn_F%C3%A9in)
| website             = [http://aims.niassembly.gov.uk/mlas/details.aspx?&aff=17942&per=7556&sel=3&ind=17&prv=0 Aisling Reilly MLA]
| honorific_suffix    = [MLA](/source/Member_of_the_Legislative_Assembly_(Northern_Ireland))
| term_start1         = 19 October 2021
| image               = Aisling Reilly 2022 (cropped).jpg
| alongside           = [Pam Cameron](/source/Pam_Cameron) (2024–2025), [Joanne Bunting](/source/Joanne_Bunting) (since 2025) 
}}
'''Aisling Reilly''' ({{Langx|ga|Aisling Ní Raghallaigh}}<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |date=December 2012 |title=Nuachtlitir Choláiste Feirste |trans-title=Coláiste Feirste Newsletter |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/38880264/read-more-colaiste-feirste  |website=Yumpu |publisher=Coláiste Feirste |page=3 |language=GA}}</ref>) is an Irish [Sinn Féin](/source/Sinn_F%C3%A9in) politician, who has served as a [Junior Minister](/source/Junior_Minister_(Northern_Ireland)) in the [Executive of the 7th Northern Ireland Assembly](/source/Executive_of_the_7th_Northern_Ireland_Assembly) since 2024. She has served as a [Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly](/source/Member_of_the_Northern_Ireland_Assembly) (MLA) for [Belfast West](/source/Belfast_West_(Assembly_constituency)) since 2021.

==Career==

Reilly was educated in [Coláiste Feirste](/source/Col%C3%A1iste_Feirste) and speaks fluent [Irish](/source/Irish_language).<ref name=":02"/>

Reilly was co-opted to the [Northern Ireland Assembly](/source/Northern_Ireland_Assembly) in October 2021, replacing veteran MLA [Fra McCann](/source/Fra_McCann), as a Member for [Belfast West](/source/Belfast_West_(Assembly_constituency)).<ref>{{cite web |title=Handball champ selected by Sinn Féin to replace west Belfast MLA Fra McCann |url=https://www.irishnews.com/news/politicalnews/2021/10/14/news/handball-champ-selected-by-sinn-fe-in-to-replace-west-belfast-mla-fra-mccann-2478257/ |website=The Irish News |date=14 October 2021 |access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sinn Féin nominate Aisling Reilly as new West Belfast MLA|url=https://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/62055|access-date=2021-11-08|website=www.sinnfein.ie|archive-date=8 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108115324/https://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/62055|url-status=dead}}</ref>

She was re-elected to the Assembly at the [2022 election](/source/2022_Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election).<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 May 2022 |title=Election 2022: More of the same from SF in West Belfast |url=https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/election-2022-more-of-the-same-from-sf-in-west-belfast-3684663 |website=News Letter}}</ref>

On 13 May 2022, Reilly became the first member of the Northern Ireland Assembly to give a full speech in the Irish language.<ref>{{cite web |title=An chéad óráid go hiomlán i nGaeilge i Stormont|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/nuacht/2022/0513/1297868-an-chead-oraid-go-hiomlan-i-ngaeilge-i-stormont/ |website=The Irish News |date=13 May 2022 |access-date=13 May 2022}}</ref>

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