Adrian McQuillan

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Adrian McQuillan, (8 June 1965, Ballymoney) is a former Northern Irish unionist politician who was a Causeway Coast and Glens Councillor for the Bann DEA from 2019 to 2023.^[1]

Career

McQuillan is a joiner by training, and was a postman for 18 years.

McQuillan was first elected onto Coleraine Borough Council at the 2001 election, representing the Bann District.^[2] He was the only Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) councillor to be returned in that district, following Robert Bolton's unsuccessful candidacy as an independent.^[3]^[4] McQuillan was re-elected to the council in 2005.^[5]

He was later elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly as one of three DUP MLAs for East Londonderry at the 2007 election, but lost his seat in the 2017 Northern Ireland Assembly election.

He was elected to Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council for the Bann District in the 2019 Northern Ireland local elections. In January 2023, after falling out with the DUP leadership over bullying allegations,^[6] he resigned from the party to sit as an Independent. He stood for re-election in the local elections that same year, but was unsuccessful.

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