Malachi Curran
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Career
He was elected to Down District Council in 1981 as a Labour candidate. He did not stand in 1985, but was elected to the same council in 1989 for the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).[1]
He resigned from the SDLP to stand as a Labour coalition candidate for the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996. Although the group did not win any constituency seats, it was awarded two top-up seats, which went to Hugh Casey and Curran.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Shortly after the elections to the Forum, the Coalition dissolved. Curran was recognised as leader of the Labour group in the Forum.[2]
With seven other leaders of Forum groupings that had supported the Good Friday Agreement, he won the Harriman Democracy Prize of the National Democratic Institute in 1998.[3]
Curran then formed the Labour Party of Northern Ireland. Under this label, he failed to take a seat standing in South Down at the 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election, winning only 1% of the first preference votes.[4]
Curran stood as an independent at the 2003 elections to the Assembly, but saw his vote drop to 0.4%.[4] At the 2007 election, he placed bottom in South Down, taking just 123 votes.[5]
After leaving politics, Curran became the owner of a pub, the Ann Boal Inn in Killough, County Down, following the death of Ann Boal, who had been a longtime friend of Curran.[6]
References
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- ↑ Down District Council Elections 1993-2011 Template:Webarchive, ARK.ac.uk; accessed 28 August 2017.
- ↑ House of Commons Template:Webarchive, parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk, 6 December 1996.
- ↑ Past Harriman recipients Template:Webarchive, ndi.org; accessed 28 August 2017.
- ↑ a b Elections: South Down Template:Webarchive, ARK
- ↑ Northern Ireland election Template:Webarchive, BBC News, 9 March 2007
- ↑ Johnny Caldwell, Pub's Good Friday Agreement link Template:Webarchive, BBC News (March 19, 2008).
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