Conor McGinn
Conor Patrick McGinn is a Labour Party politician [1]
He is the Labour Party candidate for St Helens North constituency in the 2015 General Election. St Helens North is considered a safe Labour seat and the retiring MP Dave Watts has held the seat comfortably since 1997.
He is from county Armagh in Northern Ireland. His father Pat McGinn was a Sinn Fein councillor who was Mayor of Newry and Mourne.[2] He is married with one son.
He has represented the 21 affiliated Socialist Societies on the Labour Party National Executive Committee [3] since 2011. The largest of these are LGBT Labour, Labour Women's Network, the Fabian Society and the National Union of Labour and Socialist Clubs.
He was Chair of the Labour Party Irish Society until 2012 and was Vice Chair of the Fabian Society between 2012-2013.
He stood as a Labour candidate in Mildmay ward, London Borough of Islington in 2006 and in 2010.
Between 2006 and 2007 McGinn was the Chair of the Young Fabians and previously was Vice Chair of Young Labour (2007).
He was the Political Adviser to the Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, Vernon Coaker MP.
He is an alumnus of St Paul's High School, Bessbrook, county Armagh. He was the guest speaker at the prize giving ceremony for the Class of 2013.[4]
External links
- Young Fabians official site
- Mildmay ward election result May 2006
- Irish Post news story
- St Paul's Bessbrook Senior Prizegiving 2013 - Conor McGinn
- Labour Party National Executive Committee