Declan O'Loan

Declan O'Loan
Member of Mid and East Antrim Borough Council
In office
22 May 2014  2 May 2019
Preceded byCouncil created
Succeeded byEugene Reid
ConstituencyBallymena
Member of Ballymena Borough Council
In office
19 May 1993  22 May 2014
Preceded byDistrict created
Succeeded byCouncil abolished
ConstituencyBallymena South
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for Antrim North
In office
7 March 2007  5 May 2011
Preceded bySean Farren
Succeeded byJim Allister
Personal details
Born (1951-08-05) 5 August 1951
Carnlough, Northern Ireland
NationalityIrish
Political partySDLP
SpouseNuala O'Loan
Children5
Alma materFitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Imperial College London

Declan O'Loan (born 5 August 1951) is a former Irish Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician who served as a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for North Antrim from 2007 to 2011. O’Loan was also a Member of Ballymena Borough Council from 1993 to 2014. Following comments about merging with Sinn Fein, he had the SDLP whip suspended, sitting as an Independent in 2010. He would later serve as a Mid and East Antrim Councillor for the Ballymena DEA from 2014 to 2019