Patrick McCarthy MBE is an Irish Nationalist former politician, in Northern Ireland, who was Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2006 to 2007.

As a member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), he was a Belfast City Councillor for the Laganbank DEA from 2001 to 2014.

Born and raised in the Markets area of Belfast, McCarthy was interned without trial in 1971 on suspicion of being a member of the Official IRA, before being released in 1972.

[3] McCarthy, the city's fourth nationalist mayor, was endorsed by all parties except Sinn Féin.

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