# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/caral-ni-chuilin
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:24:01.808Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/caral-ni-chuilin"
name: "Carál Ní Chuilín"
slug: "caral-ni-chuilin"
description: "Carál Ní Chuilín, formerly known as Caroline Cullen, is an Irish Sinn Féin politician and former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer serving as the Principal Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly since 2024. She has been a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast North since 2007 and served in the Northern Ireland Executive as Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure until 2016. On 15 June 2020, she was appointed Minister for Communities on a temporary basis, due to the health of the previous minister, Deirdre Hargey."
tagline: "Irish politician (born 1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Car%C3%A1l_N%C3%AD_Chuil%C3%ADn_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1964-12-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.27
  momentum:             7.35483870967742
  historical:           4.238736
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/caralnichuilin"
    handle:    "caralnichuilin"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car%C3%A1l_N%C3%AD_Chuil%C3%ADn"
    title: "Carál Ní Chuilín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car%C3%A1l_N%C3%AD_Chuil%C3%ADn"
    title: "Carál Ní Chuilín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car%C3%A1l_N%C3%AD_Chuil%C3%ADn"
    title: "Carál Ní Chuilín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car%C3%A1l_N%C3%AD_Chuil%C3%ADn"
    title: "Carál Ní Chuilín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car%C3%A1l_N%C3%AD_Chuil%C3%ADn"
    title: "Carál Ní Chuilín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5047760"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump