Kieran McCarthy

Kieran McCarthy (born September 9 1942) is a Northern Ireland politician, member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Strangford and assembly chief whip for the Alliance Party.

McCarthey was born in Newtownards and worked as a draper. In 1985 he was first elected to Ards Borough Council. In 1990 he became a Justice of the Peace. He was then elected to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum in 1996 from Strangford and has subsequently won a Northern Ireland Assembly seat there in both the 1998 and 2003 elections.