Malachi Curran | |
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Member of the Northern Ireland Forum | |
In office 30 May 1996 –25 April 1998 | |
Preceded by | Forum created |
Succeeded by | Forum dissolved |
Constituency | Top-up list |
Member of Down District Council | |
In office 17 May 1989 –19 May 1993 | |
Preceded by | Geraldine Ritchie |
Succeeded by | Gerard Mahon |
Constituency | Downpatrick |
In office 20 May 1981 –15 May 1985 | |
Preceded by | George Flinn |
Succeeded by | District abolished |
Constituency | Down Area B |
Personal details | |
Born | County Down,Northern Ireland |
Political party | Labour Party of Northern Ireland (1998–2016) Independent Labour (1981–1985) |
Other political affiliations | Labour Coalition (1996–1998) SDLP (1989–1996) |
Malachi Curran is a Northern Irish politician.
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.[ citation needed ]
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]