Francie Brolly, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Francie Brolly

Gaelic football player and Northern Irish politician

Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1947

Place of Birth: Dungiven, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Profession: politician, Gaelic football player

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Francie (formally Francis) Brolly is a musician, retired teacher and republican politician from Dungiven, Northern Ireland.
He was first elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2003 and was re-elected in 2007 as a Sinn Féin member for the East Londonderry constituency.
He resigned in 2010.
His wife, Anne Brolly was the first Sinn Féin Mayor and the first female Mayor of Limavady between 2003 and 2004, the council to which she was elected in 2001. In 2005, he was arrested by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and questioned about a bombing incident in the village of Claudy in 1972.
An official complaint was lodged with the Police Ombudsman regarding the lawfulness of the arrest and this investigation is ongoing.
Brolly mounted a legal challenge in relation to the arrest against the PSNI, which settled out of court. In February 2018, Brolly left the Sinn Fein Party over its support for abortion In March 2018 he and his wife joined Aontú, a new anti-abortion republican party founded by former Sinn Féin TD Peadar Tóibín.