Northern Irish politician
Malachi Curran
In office Preceded by Forum created Succeeded by Forum dissolved Constituency Top-up list In office Preceded by Geraldine Ritchie Succeeded by Gerard Mahon Constituency Downpatrick In office Preceded by George Flinn Succeeded by District abolished Constituency Down Area B
Born County Down , Northern IrelandPolitical party Labour Party of Northern Ireland (1998 - 2016) Independent Labour (1981 - 1985)Other political Labour Coalition (1996 - 1998) SDLP (1989 - 1996)
Malachi Curran is a Northern Irish politician.
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.[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] 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
^ Down District Council Elections 1993-2011 Archived 23 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine , ARK.ac.uk; accessed 28 August 2017.^ House of Commons Archived 5 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine , parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk, 6 December 1996.^ Past Harriman recipients Archived 27 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine , ndi.org; accessed 28 August 2017.^ a b Elections: South Down Archived 21 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine , ARK^ Northern Ireland election Archived 8 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine , BBC News, 9 March 2007^ Johnny Caldwell, Pub's Good Friday Agreement link Archived 8 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine , BBC News (March 19, 2008).