| Malachi Curran | |
| Office: | Member of the Northern Ireland Forum |
| Constituency: | Top-up list |
| Term Start: | 30 May 1996 |
| Term End: | 25 April 1998 |
| Predecessor: | Forum created |
| Successor: | Forum dissolved |
| Office1: | Member of Down District Council |
| Constituency1: | Downpatrick |
| Term Start1: | 17 May 1989 |
| Term End1: | 19 May 1993 |
| Predecessor1: | Geraldine Ritchie |
| Successor1: | Gerard Mahon |
| Constituency2: | Down Area B |
| Term Start2: | 20 May 1981 |
| Term End2: | 15 May 1985 |
| Predecessor2: | George Flinn |
| Successor2: | District abolished |
| Birth Place: | County Down, Northern Ireland |
| Party: | Labour Party of Northern Ireland (1998 - 2016) Independent Labour (1981 - 1985) |
| Otherparty: | Labour Coalition (1996 - 1998) SDLP (1989 - 1996) |
Malachi Curran is a Northern Irish politician.
He was elected to Down District Council in 1981 as a Labour candidate. He did not stand in 1985, but was elected to the same council in 1989 for the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).[1]
He resigned from the SDLP to stand as a Labour coalition candidate for the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996. Although the group did not win any constituency seats, it was awarded two top-up seats, which went to Hugh Casey and Curran.
Shortly after the elections to the Forum, the Coalition dissolved. Curran was recognised as leader of the Labour group in the Forum.[2]
With seven other leaders of Forum groupings that had supported the Good Friday Agreement, he won the Harriman Democracy Prize of the National Democratic Institute in 1998.[3]
Curran then formed the Labour Party of Northern Ireland. Under this label, he failed to take a seat standing in South Down at the 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election, winning only 1% of the first preference votes.[4]
Curran stood as an independent at the 2003 elections to the Assembly, but saw his vote drop to 0.4%. At the 2007 election, he placed bottom in South Down, taking just 123 votes.[5]
After leaving politics, Curran became the owner of a pub, the Ann Boal Inn in Killough, County Down, following the death of Ann Boal, who had been a longtime friend of Curran.[6]