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Eddie McGrady

Eddie McGrady MP

SDLP Parliamentary Chief Whip
Succeeded by Incumbent
Constituency South Down (MP)

Born June 3 1935 (1935--) (age 72)
Downpatrick, Northern Ireland
Political party Social Democratic and Labour Party
Website http://www.eddiemcgrady.com/

Edward Kevin McGrady, known as Eddie McGrady, (born June 3, 1935, Downpatrick) is a Northern Ireland nationalist politician.

Educated at St. Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick and at Belfast Technical College, where he trained as a chartered accountant. He is member of Parliament for South Down and is a member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party. He has been MP for the seat since the 1987 election, when he defeated the incumbent Unionist, Enoch Powell.

A member of the SDLP since its foundation, McGrady served as its first chairperson. He had earlier been a member of the National Democrats.

He formerly sat on the Northern Ireland Policing Board and was a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly between 1998 and 2003.

McGrady attracted criticism from some quarters and support from others when he praised the police for fatally shooting republican Colm Marks in Downpatrick on April 10, 1991. Marks, a member of the Provisional IRA, was preparing a mortar bomb at St Patrick's Avenue. [1]

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Parliament of the United Kingdom (1801–present)
Preceded by
Enoch Powell
Member of Parliament for South Down
1987 – present
Incumbent

 
 
 

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