- Sean Farren
Sean Farren (born
6 September 1939 ) is an Irishpolitician .Farren studied at the
National University of Ireland ,University College Dublin ,University of Essex and theUniversity of Ulster . He worked as ateacher inDublin ,Switzerland andSierra Leone before becoming a lecturer at the University of Ulster.Farren contested the Westminster seat of North Antrim as a member of the
Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) at the1979 UK general election , and has stood at each subsequent general election, without success.In 1982, Farren was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in North Antrim. In line with SDLP policy, he instead sat on the
New Ireland Forum .Farren was elected to the
Northern Ireland Forum in 1996, again for North Antrim, and held this seat on theNorthern Ireland Assembly in 1998 and 2003, before standing down at the 2007 election.References
* [http://www.nics.gov.uk/biogs/sfarren.htm Northern Ireland Executive: Sean Farren Biography]
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