Hugh Casey

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(24 May 1927 – 10 March 2013) was a Northern Irish politician.

Career

Casey worked as a community project manager in

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before being elected to

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as a

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(SDLP)

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in 1989. In 1994, he left the SDLP, after accepting an

, claiming that some in the party had ostracised him for accepting a British honour. He stood in Upper Bann as a

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in 1996, heading a list which took only 512 votes. Although no Labour coalition members were directly elected, as the tenth most successful party in the election, they were entitled to two seats in the Forum. These were allocated to Casey and

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. In the same year, he became the first Catholic Mayor of

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. The Coalition soon disintegrated. Casey stood as an independent Labour candidate in the 1997 local elections, but lost his seat in Craigavon. He did not stand for the

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in 1998, but did

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for the

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. When the composition of the

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was first revealed in 1998, Casey was named as a member. From 2003, he sat on the

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District Policing Partnership, and received

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s believed to be from

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. He later served as a member of Craigavon District Policing Partnership.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Casey, Hugh 1927 births 2013 deaths Mayors of Craigavon Members of Craigavon Borough Council Members of the Northern Ireland Forum Social Democratic and Labour Party politicians Members of the Order of the British Empire