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|predecessor4 = [[Good Friday Agreement|''Constituency created'']]
|successor4 = [[Assembly Members (Reduction of Numbers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016|''Seat abolished'']]
| office5 = Member of <br/> [[Newry and Mourne District Council]]
| constituency5 = [[The Fews (District Electoral Area)|The Fews]]
| term_start5 = 15 May 1985
| term_end5 = 5 May 2011
| predecessor5 = ''District created''
| successor5 = David Taylor
| office6 = [[Northern Ireland Forum|Northern Ireland Forum Member]] <br/> for [[Newry and Armagh (Assembly constituency)|Newry and Armagh]]
| term_start6 = 30 May 1996
| term_end6 = 25 April 1998
| predecessor6 = ''Forum established''
| successor6 = ''Forum dissolved''
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|7|6|df=yes}}
|birth_place = [[Bessbrook]], [[Northern Ireland]]
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'''Danny Kennedy''' (born 6 July 1959) is a
He was formerly deputy leader of the [[Ulster Unionist Party]] Assembly Group. He served in the [[Northern Ireland Executive]] as [[Department for Regional Development|Minister for Regional Development]] from 2011 to 2015. On 12 May 2016, Kennedy was elected as Deputy Speaker of the [[Northern Ireland Assembly]]. It was confirmed that he had lost his seat as an [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland)|MLA]] for [[Newry and Armagh (Assembly constituency)|Newry and Armagh]] on 3 March 2017.
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Kennedy did not appeal an employment tribunal decision that found that a Protestant job applicant, Alan Lennon, had been discriminated against by Kennedy's predecessor [[Conor Murphy]]. Lennon was awarded £150,000 damages.<ref name="BBC News">{{cite news|title=Conor Murphy claims Danny Kennedy 'ignored' legal advice in DRD case|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19163701|work=BBC News|date=7 August 2012|publisher=BBC News|access-date=26 August 2012|archive-date=9 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121209010757/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19163701|url-status=live}}</ref>
He contested the constituency of [[Newry and Armagh (UK Parliament constituency)|Newry and Armagh]] for the UUP in the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005]], [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010]], and [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015 general elections]], finishing fourth, third and second with 13.9%, 19.1% and 32.7% of the vote respectively.<ref>{{cite web |title=Newry and Armagh |url=https://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/ananda.htm |website=[[Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive]] |access-date=21 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Newry & Armagh Parliamentary constituency |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/N06000011#election2015-logo |website=[[BBC News]] |access-date=21 October 2022}}</ref>
Kennedy lost his seat as an [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland)|MLA]] in the [[2017 Northern Ireland Assembly election]], which was held on 2 March 2017.
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On 23 December 2019, Kennedy was appointed to be the Chairman of the Ulster Unionist Party, replacing [[Reg Empey]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/danny-kennedy-appointed-ulster-unionist-chairman-1348431|title=Danny Kennedy appointed Ulster Unionist chairman|access-date=9 September 2021|archive-date=9 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210909085905/https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/danny-kennedy-appointed-ulster-unionist-chairman-1348431|url-status=live}}</ref>
==References==
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