Debate contribution: Tributes: Mr Mickey Brady
Debate contribution by Mr Cathal Boylan on .
- MLA
- Mr Cathal Boylan
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 19 January 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Assembly Business
- Heading
- Tributes: Mr Mickey Brady
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5321939
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It is with great sadness that I rise. Sinn Féin has lost a great friend, colleague and comrade. Mickey Brady was a pure gentleman and a great advocate for the people of Newry and Armagh. He was an expert in welfare rights and helped everyone who crossed his doorstep or asked for advice. He was my great companion on many's a campaign trail, and he had a great wit and humour about him. He made a wonderful contribution to politics in this Building and locally and was well respected by comrades and community alike. He will be sadly missed. I extend my sympathies and condolences to Caroline, his children, his grandchildren and the wider Brady clan. Farewell to a working-class hero. Farewell to the people's champion.
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