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Micky Brady
 For
decades now, Micky Brady has
quietly, sympathetically and
professionally represented
people from all backgrounds who
have sought independent advice
on social welfare issues. In
that time he saw genuine need
and endeavoured to alleviate
it.
No panel or
committee or tribunal was
complete without Micky Brady,
the experienced counsellor and
people’s advocate – the man
whose name has become synonymous
with Welfare Rights.
Ballybot
born, Micky Brady is the
quintessential Newry man, though
his work has taken him
throughout South Down and South
Armagh. Espousing the
republican principles of Tone
and Connolly, in those patriots’
endeavours to unite all the
people of Ireland and to advance
the interests of the working
class, Micky Brady’s decision to
enter the public political arena
was a natural and welcome one.
Not just
Newry, but the northern Assembly
itself needs people of the
calibre of Micky Brady. Set
against the sham world of some
local politicians’ tiresome
repertoire of postures and
endless, empty public statements
on matters of no importance,
Micky Brady stands out as a man
of substance, a worker with a
performance record second to
none.
The changing
political configuration in the
North sorely needs individuals
like Micky Brady, people of
honesty, integrity and principle
to whom sectarianism is anathema
and for whom ordinary people’s
needs are paramount.
IHis vast experience in
representing individuals,
families and community-based
organisations has left him
deeply aware of the need for
compassion and fair play in
society. He is gently
persuasive, informed and
determined; a good fighter in
the corner of the socially
excluded and powerless, and a
formidable opponent of bigotry
and injustice.
His emergence onto the public
political stage is symbolic of
the changes which are affecting
the northern political
landscape. His community
credentials allow Sinn Féin to
break new ground locally and he
adds a wider dimension to our
Northern Assembly team.
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