Edward Kevin McGrady MP, known as Eddie McGrady, (born June 3, 1935, Downpatrick) is a Northern Ireland nationalist politician and a member of the United Kingdom Parliament.

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  • Edward Kevin McGrady MP, known as Eddie McGrady, (born June 3, 1935, Downpatrick) is a Northern Ireland nationalist politician and a member of the United Kingdom Parliament. 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. McGrady's support has held solid over the years despite talk of a slippage & this was re-enforced in the last British election with his re-election to the House of Commons. 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. He was unarmed at the time of the shooting and carrying no bomb. The RUC have yet to admit that this was murder. [http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/index.html] (en)
  • Edward Kevin McGrady, född 3 juni 1935 i Downpatrick, är en nordirländsk politiker inom Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). Eddie McGrady började sin politiska karriär på 1960-talet i lokalpolitiken i Downpatrick. I slutet av 1960-talet engagerade han sig i rörelsen för medborgerliga rättigheter för den katolska befolkningen i Nordirland och anslöt sig till SDLP när partiet bildades 1970. Efter flera misslyckade försök lyckades McGrady i valet 1987 bli invald i det brittiska underhuset för valkretsen South Down. Han besegrade då den sittande UUP-representanten Enoch Powell. Han har blivit omvald vid de följande valen och är den ende av SDLP:s nuvarande tre parlamentsledamöter som ställde upp för omval i valet 2005. (sv)
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  • 9,140 (19.0%) (en)
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  • Eddie McGrady (en)
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  • 1987-06-11 (xsd:date)
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  • Edward Kevin McGrady MP, known as Eddie McGrady, (born June 3, 1935, Downpatrick) is a Northern Ireland nationalist politician and a member of the United Kingdom Parliament. (en)
  • Edward Kevin McGrady, född 3 juni 1935 i Downpatrick, är en nordirländsk politiker inom Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). (sv)
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  • Eddie McGrady (en)
  • Eddie McGrady (sv)
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