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Brian Heading
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Brian Heading (born 1957) is an Irish Nationalist politician who sits as a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) Councillor on Lisburn City Council, County Antrim. Lisburn City Council Heading was co-opted onto Lisburn City Council in 2004. He was Chair of the Council’s Leisure Services Committee from 2007- 2009 and currently sits on their Economic Development Committee. Brian replaced the late Councillor Peter O'Hagan as leader of the Lisburn SDLP Group. Heading represents the predominantly Irish Nationalist Dunmurry Cross electoral area, bordering West Belfast. He currently sits as one of three SDLP councillors elected to Lisburn City Council. Heading was elected as Deputy Mayor of Lisburn City Council on 21 June 2010, alongside Alderman Paul Porter of the DUP as Mayor. As a result, Heading became the second nationalist Deputy Mayor of Lisburn. To date there has been no nationalist Mayor of the city. Westminster Election 2010 Heading was selected as the SDLP candidate for Lagan Valley for the 2010 UK General Election. Heading polled 1,835 votes (5.0%), coming fifth after the three unionist parties, and Alliance, but coming ahead of the Sinn Féin candidate Paul Butler in a reverse of the 2005 result, in which Sinn Féin polled better than the SDLP candidate. 
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