Martin Morgan

{{Short description|Irish politician}}

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| office1 = Lord Mayor of Belfast

| order1 = 60th

| predecessor1 = Alex Maskey

| successor1 = Tom Ekin

| term_start1 = 1 June 2003

| term_end1 = 1 June 2004

| office2 = Member of
Belfast City Council

| constituency2 = Oldpark

| term_start2 = 19 May 1993

| term_end2 = 5 May 2005

| predecessor2 = Brian Feeney

| successor2 = Alban Maginness

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| nationality = Irish

| party = SDLP

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| spouse = Dympna Morgan

| alma_mater = 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.[https://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/96nb.htm Northern Ireland elections] ARK, 15 May 2003. He was a councillor on Belfast City Council until 2005. Morgan was the youngest Nationalist and Catholic to be elected Lord Mayor of Belfast{{cite news |last=Kelly |first=Gary |date=3 June 2003 |title=SDLP man is new Mayor of Belfast |url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/sdlp-man-is-new-mayor-of-belfast-215481.html |work=Irish Independent |access-date=5 October 2015}} until the election of Niall Ó Donnghaile (SF). He stood for the party in the 2004 European Parliament elections.{{cite news |title=SDLP Chooses Morgan to defend Hume's seat |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2004/0308/1077098584090.html |work=The Irish Times |date=8 March 2004}} 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|date=October 2015}} 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|date=October 2015}}

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.[https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/belfast-mayor-slammed-for-attending-easter-rising-ceremony-146140.html Belfast Mayor slammed for attending Easter Rising Ceremony] BreakingNews.ie, 5 May 2004.{{cite news |last=Anderson |date=6 May 2004 |first=Nichola |title=Archbishop praises 1916 generation |url=http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/archbishop-praises-1916-generation-25913208.html |work=Irish Independent |access-date=31 May 2022}}

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