Mick Murphy (Sinn Féin politician)

{{Infobox officeholder

| name=Mick Murphy

|image =

|imagesize = 150px

| office = Member of
Newry and Mourne District Council

| constituency = Crotlieve

| term_start = 21 May 1997

| term_end = 22 May 2014

| predecessor = Gordon Heslip

| successor = Council abolished

| office1 = Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for South Down

| term_start1 = 25 June 1998

| term_end1 = 26 November 2003

| predecessor1 = Assembly re-established

| successor1 = Caitríona Ruane

| office2 = Member of the Northern Ireland Forum
for South Down

| term_start2 = 30 May 1996

| term_end2 = 25 April 1998

| birth_date={{Birth date and age|1942|2|6|df=y}}

| birth_place=Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland

| party=Sinn Féin

| spouse=

| website=

}}

Michael Murphy (born 6 February 1942) is an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland.

Background

Active in Irish republicanism after getting involved with the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association of the 1960s, he worked as a publican. In 1996, he was elected as a member of the Northern Ireland Forum for Sinn Féin in South Down. Murphy was the unsuccessful Sinn Féin candidate for South Down in the 1997 election to the United Kingdom Parliament; a few months later he was elected to Newry and Mourne District Council.

He was then elected from the same constituency to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998.[http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/members/biogs/mmurphy.htm NI Assembly Biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929090112/http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/members/biogs/mmurphy.htm |date=29 September 2007 }}[http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/asd.htm 1998 NI Assembly Election Results] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221210438/http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/asd.htm |date=21 February 2011 }} He was Sinn Féin spokesperson on Housing. He was again elected as a councillor for Newry and Mourne District Council from the Crotlieve electoral area in 2005.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}