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Mick Murphy (Sinn Féin politician)

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Mick Murphy
Member of
Newry and Mourne District Council
In office
21 May 1997 – 22 May 2014
Preceded byGordon Heslip
Succeeded byCouncil abolished
ConstituencyCrotlieve
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for South Down
In office
25 June 1998 – 26 November 2003
Preceded byAssembly re-established
Succeeded byCaitríona Ruane
Member of the Northern Ireland Forum
for South Down
In office
30 May 1996 – 25 April 1998
Personal details
Born (1942-02-06) 6 February 1942 (age 82)
Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland
Political partySinn Féin

Michael Murphy (born 6 February 1942) is an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland.

Background

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Active in Irish republicanism after getting involved with the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association of the 1960s, he worked as a publican. In 1996, he was elected as a member of the Northern Ireland Forum for Sinn Féin in South Down. Murphy was the unsuccessful Sinn Féin candidate for South Down in the 1997 election to the United Kingdom Parliament; a few months later he was elected to Newry and Mourne District Council.

He was then elected from the same constituency to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998.[1][2] He was Sinn Féin spokesperson on Housing. He was again elected as a councillor for Newry and Mourne District Council from the Crotlieve electoral area in 2005.[citation needed]

References

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Northern Ireland Forum
New forum Member for South Down
1996–1998
Forum dissolved
Northern Ireland Assembly
New assembly MLA for South Down
1998–2003
Succeeded by
Civic offices
Preceded by
John Feehan
Mayor of Newry
2010–2011
Succeeded by
Charlie Casey