Nuala O'Loan, Baroness O'Loan

The Baroness O'Loan
Official portrait, 2024
Member of the House of Lords
Life peerage
11 September 2009
Personal details
BornNuala Patricia O'Loan
(1951-12-20) 20 December 1951
Hertfordshire, England
PartyCrossbench
Alma materKing's College London
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Nuala Patricia O'Loan, Baroness O'Loan, DBE, MRIA (born 20 December 1951), is a public figure in Northern Ireland. From 1999 to 2007, she was the first Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. In July 2009, it was announced that she was to be appointed to the House of Lords and she was so appointed in September 2009. In December 2010, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, appointed her as the chairwoman of its governing authority. She is a columnist with The Irish Catholic.