Hugh Casey is a former politician

Politician

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 in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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Casey worked as a community project manager in Lurgan

Lurgan

Lurgan is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The town is near the southern shore of Lough Neagh and in the north-eastern corner of the county. Part of the Craigavon Borough Council area, Lurgan is about 18 miles south-west of Belfast and is linked to the city by both the M1 motorway...

http://www.nipolicingboard.org.uk/text_only/to_pr_mar03.htm before being elected to Craigavon Borough Council

Craigavon Borough Council

Craigavon Borough Council is a local council in counties Armagh, Down and Antrim, in Northern Ireland. The headquarters of the council is in Craigavon, on the shores of Lough Neagh, a new town built between Lurgan and Portadown. The council area includes the large towns of Lurgan and Portadown, as...

 as a Social Democratic and Labour Party

Social Democratic and Labour Party

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 (SDLP) councillor

Councillor

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 in 1989

Northern Ireland local elections, 1989

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.http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/85-89lgcraigavon.htm In 1994, he left the SDLP, after accepting an MBE

MBE

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, claiming that some in the party had ostracised him for accepting a British honour.http://www.sluggerotoole.com/index.php/weblog/comments/sdlp_man_accepts_gong/ He stood in Upper Bann

Upper Bann (Assembly constituency)

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 as a Labour Coalition

Labour Coalition

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 candidate for the Northern Ireland Forum

Northern Ireland Forum

The Northern Ireland Forum was a body set up in 1996 as part of a process of negotiations that eventually led to the Belfast Agreement in 1998....

 in 1996, heading a list which took only 512 votes.http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/96ub.htm

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 Malachi Curran

Malachi Curran

Malachi Curran is a politician in Northern Ireland.Curran was elected to Down District Council in 1993 for the Social Democratic and Labour Party . He resigned from the SDLP to stand as a Labour Coalition candidate for the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996...

.http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/ff96.htm In the same year, he became the first Catholic Mayor of Craigavon

Craigavon

Craigavon is a settlement in north County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It was a planned settlement that was begun in 1965 and named after Northern Ireland's first Prime Minister — James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon. It was intended to be a linear city incorporating Lurgan and Portadown, but this plan...

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The Coalition soon disintegrated. Casey stood as an independent Labour candidate in the 1997

Northern Ireland local elections, 1997

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 local elections, but lost his seat in Craigavon.http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/lgcraigavon.htm He did not stand for the Northern Ireland Assembly

Northern Ireland Assembly

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 in 1998, but did canvass for the Labour Party of Northern Ireland

Labour Party of Northern Ireland

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.http://www.districtpolicing.com/index/int-dpp-members/int-dpp-area?area=Craigavon

When the composition of the Northern Ireland Policing Board

Northern Ireland Policing Board

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 was first revealed in 1998, Casey was named as a member.http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm41/4157/nio01.htm From 2003, he sat on the County Armagh

County Armagh

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 District Policing Partnership, and received death threat

Death threat

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s believed to be from dissident republicans.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3500020.stm He is currently a member of Craigavon District Policing Partnership.http://www.districtpolicing.com/index/int-dpp-members/int-dpp-area?area=Craigavon