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) |
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Malachi Curran is a Northern Irish politician.
He was elected to Down District Councilin1981 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]
Northern Ireland Forum | ||
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New forum | Regional Member 1996–1998 |
Forum dissolved |
Party political offices | ||
Preceded by | Leader of the Labour coalition 1996–1998 |
Coalition dissolved |
New political party | Leader of the Labour Party of Northern Ireland 1998-present |
Incumbent |