Mick Murphy (Irish Socialist Party) Totally Explained

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Mick Murphy is an Irish socialist elected representative. He is a Socialist Party councillor for Tallaght Central.
   Mick was born in County Tipperary and graduated as an engineer in Cork Regional Technical College (forerunner of Cork IT). He was twice elected president of the Students' Union and twice elected Campaigns Organiser of the national union, the Union of Students in Ireland (USI). As a USI officer Murphy was active on the abortion information rights campaign.
   Mick Murphy was a member of the Militant Tendency of the Labour Party. He left Labour in the early 1990s to form Militant Labour and in 1996 the Socialist Party. Murphy was a full-time organiser for the Anti-Water charges campaign in the mid 1990s. He ran in the 1997 general election and received 2,206 votes (4.8%) and in the 1999 local elections he received 753 votes (8.3%), coming close to a Council seat. In the 2002 general election he won 954 votes (2.6%). In 2007 Murphy increased his Dáil vote to 1,580 first preference votes (3.8%) coming in 6th place in the 4 seat constituency.
   Mick Murphy was a key organiser of the Anti-Bin Tax Campaign in the Tallaght area. He was the last of the 22 activists to be sent to jail in October 2003. He was sent to Mountjoy Prison for three weeks for his prominent role opposing the non-collection of refuse. In the 2004 local election he won 2,505 first preference votes (16.1%) and was first elected in his ward.
   Murphy, alongside Joe Higgins, came to national attention for his exposure of the GAMA scandal. Turkish firm, GAMA Construction, paid Turkish and Kurdish workers in Ireland as low as €2.20 per hour.

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