Aidan Larkin

Aidan J. Larkin (born March 1946) is a former Irish nationalist politician. Born near Cookstown, County Tyrone, Larkin studied at St Patrick's College, Armagh, University College Dublin and Queen's University Belfast. He qualified in law and joined the Bar of Northern Ireland, but worked instead as a teacher before becoming a full-time activist in the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). A founder member of the SDLP, Larkin was its first chairman in Magherafelt, at the Northern Ireland local elections, 1973, Larkin was elected to Magherafelt District Council, and later in the year he won a seat in Mid Ulster on the Northern Ireland Assembly. However, he narrowly lost his seat at the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention election in 1975, and left politics a few years later.