Mick Murphy (Sinn Féin politician)

Mick Murphy
Member of Newry and Mourne District Council
In office 21 May 1997 – 22 May 2014
Preceded by	Gordon Heslip
Succeeded by	Council abolished
Constituency	Crotlieve
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for South Down
In office 25 June 1998 – 26 November 2003
Preceded by	Assembly re-established
Succeeded by	Caitríona Ruane
Member of the Northern Ireland Forum for South Down
In office 30 May 1996 – 25 April 1998
Personal details
Born	(1942-02-06) 6 February 1942 Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland
Political party	Sinn Féin

Michael Murphy (born 6 February 1942) is an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland.

Background

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. 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.