Roderick O'Connor (politician)

Roderick O'Connor (1910 – 23 January 2000) was a nationalist politician in Northern Ireland.

O'Connor was a solicitor and a director of the Ulster Herald series of newspapers.

He became active in the Nationalist Party and sat on various boards in County Tyrone.

[1] In 1958, he worked with Eddie McAteer to prevent the Nationalist Party becoming the official opposition at Stormont.

When, in 1965, they finally accepted the role, O'Connor became the Opposition Chief Whip and the Shadow Minister of Home Affairs.