election results in Foyle. She resigned from the Assembly with Karen Mullan in September and was replaced by Pádraig Delargy and Ciara Ferguson. Anderson's sister, Sharon Burke, claimed that Anderson had been used as a "sacrificial lamb" by Sinn Féin. "The British could not do to our Martina what her comrades and friends have done," Burke wrote on Facebook. References External links Official Sinn Féin biography Martina Anderson on European Parliament website 1962 births 20th-century women from Northern Ireland 21st-century women politicians from Northern Ireland Female members of the Northern Ireland Assembly Irish republicans Irish republicans imprisoned under Prevention of Terrorism Acts Junior ministers of the Northern Ireland Assembly (since 1999) Living people MEPs for Northern Ireland 2009–2014 MEPs for Northern Ireland 2014–2019 MEPs for Northern Ireland 2019–2020 Northern Ireland MLAs 2007–2011 Northern Ireland MLAs 2011–2016 Politicians from Derry (city) Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by England and Wales Provisional Irish Republican Army members Sinn Féin MEPs Sinn Féin MLAs 21st-century women MEPs for Northern Ireland Women ministers of the Northern Ireland Executive Alumni of the Open University Sinn Féin parliamentary candidates