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    John O'Dowd

    Minister for Infrastructure of Northern Ireland since 2024

    For the 19th-century politician, see John O'Dowd (Sligo MP).

    John Fitzgerald O'Dowd (born 10 May 1967) is an IrishSinn Féin politician.

    He has been a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Upper Bann since 2003.[1] He has served as Minister for Infrastructure from May to October 2022, and again since 2024. He served as Minister for Education in the Stormont Executive from 2011 to 2016.

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    He briefly took on the duties of deputy First Minister in 2011 while Martin McGuinness ran in the 2011 Irish presidential election.

    In 2019, O'Dowd launched an unsuccessful bid to unseat Michelle O'Neill as Vice President of Sinn Féin at the party's ard fheis and received the endorsement of Fermanagh and South TyroneMPMichelle Gildernew.

    However, he refused to give media interviews to explain his decision to challenge O'Neill.[2]

    Early career

    O'Dowd was born in 1967 in Tullylish, a rural commun