Fergus McAteer

Fergus McAteer is an accountant and was a politician of the Nationalist Party and the Irish Independence Party (IIP ) in Northern Ireland.

Politically active McAteer was in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights movement of the late 1960s. When Bloody Sunday in 1972, he was arrested for allegedly throwing stones. This charge was later dropped, but he turned always decided against this derivative action. He is the son of Eddie McAteer (1914-1986), who was leader of the Nationalist Party in the 1960s.

McAteer was elected in 1973 and 1977 for the Nationalist Party in the Londonderry City Council. In October 1977, the Nationalist Party merged with Unity for Irish Independence Party; McAteer was doing with Frank McManus ( Unity ) founding member of the IIP; after 1979 he was chairman of the party the IIP. As a Northern Irish nationalist is McAteer began for a union of Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland, but also supported moves towards independence of Northern Ireland.

In the British general election 1979 candidate McAteer for the IPP in the constituency of Londonderry and finished fifth. 1981 McAteer was re-elected in the Londonderry City Council for the IIP and was doing more votes than before. The mandate he was in 1985, when the IIP lost 17 ​​of its 21 municipal mandates, hold. The IPP broke up even before the election of 1989 and Fergus McAteer did not run.

McAteer founded 1973, a tax consulting firm, where he works with a staff of 13 and his brother Nail.