predecessor successor religion birth_place assembly imagesize party nationality term_end birth_date term_start article_title constituency_am name
'' new creation '' declan o'loan roman catholic dublin northern ireland 150px social democratic and labour party irish 7 march 2007 06 september 1939 25 june 1998 sean farren
 antrim north sean farren
sean farren

sean nial farren -lrb- born 6 september 1939 -rrb- is an irish politician of northern ireland .
farren studied at the national university of ireland , university college dublin , university of essex and the university of ulster .
he worked as a teacher in dublin , switzerland and sierra leone before becoming a lecturer at the university of ulster .
farren contested the westminster seat of north antrim as a member of the social democratic and labour party -lrb- sdlp -rrb- at the 1979 uk general election , and has stood at each subsequent general election , without success .
in 1982 , farren was elected to the northern ireland assembly in north antrim .
in line with sdlp policy , he instead sat on the new ireland forum .
farren was elected to the northern ireland forum in 1996 , again for north antrim , and held this seat on the northern ireland assembly in 1998 and 2003 , before standing down at the 2007 election .
