evidence: John Fitzgerald O'Dowd (born 10 May 1967) is an Irish Sinn 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. He briefly took on the duties of deputy First Minister in 2011 while Martin McGuinness ran in the 2011 Irish presidential election. [...] Personal life [edit]O'Dowd is married and has three children.[3] [...] - ^ "Remarkable year for new deputy first minister John O'Dowd". BBC News. 21 September 2011. Archived from the original on 20 March 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2018.