Hugh News

Hugh News (June 1931 – April 2012) was an Irish nationalist politician from Northern Ireland.

Background News grew up in Silverwood, Lurgan, News joined the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) in the early 1970s and was elected for the party to Craigavon Borough Council in 1973, holding his seat at each election until he stood down in 1989.

News was elected in Armagh at the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election and held his seat on the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention in 1975 and at the 1982 Assembly election. In the last two elections, he narrowly beat fellow SDLP member and friend Paddy O'Hanlon for the final seat.

In October 1973, armed men, believed to be loyalist paramilitaries, threw a grenade at News' public house, the Criterion Bar in Francis Street, Lurgan, injuring a customer and a barman. News continued to run the pub until his retirement in 1998.

News died in late April 2012.