Martin Morgan

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Martin Morgan was formerly a Northern Ireland politician for the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). Married to Dympna, a double graduate from the Queen's University of Belfast and qualified Master's Level Social Worker, Morgan was a political activist since his teenage years.

A former Vice-Chairperson of the SDLP party and Executive member. He was a councillor on Belfast City Council until 2005. Morgan was the youngest Nationalist and Catholic to be elected Lord Mayor of Belfast. He who stood for the party in the 2004 European Parliament elections. 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. Morgan left the SDLP after seing out his third term of office and is understood to support the extension and contesting of elections by the Fianna Fáil Party into the northern six counties of Ireland.

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.