Fred Cobain, MBE (born 30 April 1946) is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician from Northern Ireland, serving as a Belfast City Councillor for the Castle DEA since 2019 .
He was previously an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Belfast North from 1998 until 2011.
[2] Cobain was Chair of the Assembly's Committee for Social Development and served two terms on the Northern Ireland Policing Board.
[6] On 14 January 2013, Fred Cobain left the Ulster Unionist party which he had served for more than 30 years.
He joined the Democratic Unionist Party saying the UUP was "riven with personal and policy divisions" and was "politically exhausted".