A former Republican hunger striker has been selected to replace Gerry Adams in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Pat Sheehan (52), from the Falls Road in west Belfast, participated in the 1980 hunger strike for political status by republican prisoners in the H-blocks, having been imprisoned in 1979.
In 1987 he was released from prison but was again imprisoned for IRA activity in 1989, this time being sentenced to 24 years in jail.
Mr Sheehan was released from prison in 1998 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. He now works for the republican ex-prisoners organisation, Coiste na n-Iarchími.
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams announced at the weekend that he is to quit the Stormont Assembly to enable him to contest the next Dáil election.
He will also resign his West Belfast seat at Westminster.
Mr Adams said he would seek the Sinn Féin nomination in the Louth constituency ahead of the next general election following the announcement that party colleague Arthur Morgan will not seek re-election.