Mick Murphy | |
Office: | Member of Newry and Mourne District Council |
Constituency: | Crotlieve |
Term Start: | 21 May 1997 |
Term End: | 22 May 2014 |
Predecessor: | Gordon Heslip |
Successor: | Council abolished |
Office1: | Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for South Down |
Term Start1: | 25 June 1998 |
Term End1: | 26 November 2003 |
Predecessor1: | Assembly re-established |
Successor1: | Caitríona Ruane |
Office2: | Member of the Northern Ireland Forum for South Down |
Term Start2: | 30 May 1996 |
Term End2: | 25 April 1998 |
Birth Date: | 6 February 1942 |
Birth Place: | Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland |
Party: | Sinn 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.