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Mick Murphy (Sinn Féin politician)

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Mick Murphy
Member of the
Northern Ireland Forum
In office
1996–1998
ConstituencySouth Down
Member of the
Northern Ireland Assembly
In office
1998–2003
Succeeded byCaitriona Ruane
ConstituencySouth Down
Councillor on
Newry and Mourne District Council
In office
1997–2003
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. 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.

References

Northern Ireland Assembly
Preceded by
New creation
MLA for South Down
1998 - 2003
Succeeded by