Martin Morgan
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| 60th Lord Mayor of Belfast | |
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| Preceded by | Alex Maskey |
| Succeeded by | Tom Ekin |
| Member of Belfast City Council | |
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| Preceded by | Brian Feeney |
| Succeeded by | Alban Maginness |
| Constituency | Oldpark |
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| Party | SDLP |
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| Queen's University, Belfast | |
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Martin Morgan is an Irish former politician for the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). Married to Dympna, a double graduate from the Queen's University of Belfast and a qualified Master's Level Social Worker, Morgan has been a political activist since his teenage years.
A former Vice-Chairperson of the SDLP and Executive member. In 1996, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Northern Ireland Forum election in North Belfast.[1] He was a councillor on Belfast City Council until 2005. Morgan was the youngest Nationalist and Catholic to be elected Lord Mayor of Belfast[2] until the election of Niall Ó Donnghaile (SF). He stood for the party in the 2004 European Parliament elections.[3] He was the youngest ever Belfast councillor when first elected.
He questioned, but abided by, SDLP support for the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). The PSNI was accused by Morgan and representatives of the local community of using heavy-handed policing to force an Orange Order parade through the mainly Catholic Ardoyne area of North Belfast.[citation needed] Morgan left the SDLP after seeing out his third term of office. He writes a weekly "Straight Talking" column in the Belfast newspaper North Belfast News. This column deals with current affairs, political and social responsibility matters, particularly but not exclusively in North Belfast.[citation needed]
Morgan's grandfather William Mullan was a member of the Irish Army colour party which accompanied 1916 rebel Padraig Pearse's body to the graveyard.[4][5]
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- ^ Northern Ireland elections ARK, 15 May 2003.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kelly, Gary (3 June 2003). "SDLP man is new Mayor of Belfast". Irish Independent. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."SDLP Chooses Morgan to defend Hume's seat". The Irish Times. 8 March 2004.
- ^ Belfast Mayor slammed for attending Easter Rising Ceremony BreakingNews.ie, 5 May 2004.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Anderson, Nichola (6 May 2004). "Archbishop praises 1916 generation". Irish Independent. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
