Description
Conor Terence Murphy is an Irish republican Sinn F�in politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Newry and Armagh.
Murphy was born in Newry, County Down. According to An Phoblacht, he first became involved with the Provisional Irish Republican Army during the 1981 hunger strikes. In 1982 he was sentenced to five years in prison for IRA membership and possession of explosives.
Between 1989 and 1997, he was a Sinn F�in councillor on Newry and Mourne District Council for The Fews area, in South Armagh and South Down, and served as his party's group leader at that level.
In 1998, Murphy was elected as one of his party's two Northern Ireland Assembly members for Newry and Armagh. He was re-elected, with two party colleagues, to the Assembly in 2003.
He lives in Camlough, County Armagh with his wife Catherine, his daughter �ine and his son O�sin. He attended St. Colman's College, Newry, Queen's University of Belfast, and the University of Ulster.
In 2001, he contested the Newry and Armagh Westminster seat, coming second to incumbent Seamus Mallon of the Social Democratic and Labour Party. [More at Wikipedia]
Born
July 10th, 1963 in Newry (Age 61)
Last Changes
2021/03/25
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2011/11/15
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2011/11/10
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