Martin Morgan

Martin Morgan is a former Northern Irish 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 was a political activist from his teenage years onwards.

A former Vice-Chairperson of the SDLP party and Executive member. He was a councillor on Belfast City Council until 2005. Morgan was the youngest Nationalist and Catholic to be elected Lord Mayor of Belfast.^[1] He stood for the party in the 2004 European Parliament elections.^[2] 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. 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.

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Preceded by Alex Maskey	Lord Mayor of Belfast 2003 — 2004	Succeeded by Tom Ekin

References

1. ^ SDLP man is new Mayor Of Belfast-The Independent.Ie
2. ^ SDLP Chooses Morgan to defend Hume's seat-The Irish Times

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