SDLP co-founder and NI civil rights leader Austin Currie dies aged 82

Civil rights leader was last surviving founder of party that advocated reunification but rejected violence during Troubles

Austin Currie, a founding member of the SDLP and a key figure in launching Northern Ireland’s civil rights movement, has died aged 82.

Currie was the last surviving founder of the Social Democratic and Labour party, launched in 1970, after the deaths of John Hume in 2020 and Ivan Cooper in 2019.

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