Profile
Conall McDevitt is the SDLP MLA for South Belfast. He succeeded Carmel Hanna on January 21 2010.
He is the SDLP's youngest MLA and the Party's Regional Development spokesperson, sitting on the Regional Development committee as well as the Justice Committee.
Born in Dublin he spent his formative years in Malaga, Spain. He was Director of Communications for the SDLP in Northern Ireland from 1996 to 1999 a time that included the negotiations running up to the Good Friday Agreement, subsequent referendum and Assembly elections. He served as a Special Adviser in the first Power Sharing Executive in the North of Ireland, advising the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development.
He is a former Managing Director of Weber Shandwick and also a former Chairperson of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.