Hugh Downey was a politician

Politician

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 in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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Downey was a Roman Catholic and worked as a barman. He joined the Northern Ireland Labour Party

Northern Ireland Labour Party

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 and by 1942 was its Vice-Chairman.

At the Northern Ireland general election, 1945, Downey was elected for Belfast Dock

Belfast Dock (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

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, defeating sitting Ulster Unionist Party

Ulster Unionist Party

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 member George Anthony Clark. Downey lost the seat at the 1949 general election

Northern Ireland general election, 1949

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Downey's nephew Danny Morrison later became a prominent member of Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...

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