16 Facts About Hugh Logue

Hugh Anthony Logue was born on 23 January 1949 and is a Northern Irish former Social Democratic and Labour Party politician and economist who now works as a commentator on political and economic issues.

Hugh Logue is a director of two renewable energy companies in Europe and the United States.

Hugh Logue gained a scholarship to St Columbs College which he attended from 1961 to 1967.

Hugh Logue stood as a candidate in elections to the new Northern Ireland Assembly in 1973 and was elected for Londonderry, aged 24, the youngest candidate elected that year.

The Irish State papers from 1980 reveal that Hugh Logue was a confidante of the Irish Government of that time briefing it regularly on the SDLP's outlook.

Hugh Logue is known for his controversial comments at Trinity College Dublin at the time of the power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement, which many blame for helping to contribute to the Agreement's defeat, to wit, that: [Sunningdale was] "the vehicle that would trundle Unionists into a united Ireland".

Hugh Logue unsuccessfully contested the Londonderry seat in the February 1974 and 1979 Westminster Elections.

Hugh Logue was elected to the 1975 constitutional convention and the 1982 Assembly.

Hugh Logue was a member of the New Ireland Forum in 1983.

Hugh Logue's role was credited in Ten Men Dead by David Beresford, Biting the Grave by P O'Malley and, more recently, in Blanketmen and Afterlives by former Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer Richard O'Rawe.

Papers published by National University Galway in 2016 from Hugh Logue's archives indicate that Hugh Logue was the originator of the Peace Fund concept within the European Commission.

At the European Commission from 1984 to 1998, Hugh Logue developed a strong policy like between Eu Regional policy and Eu Research Policy, creating STRIDE.

In July 2006, Hugh Logue was appointed as a board member of the Irish Peace Institute, based at the University of Limerick and in 2009 was appointed Vice Chairman.

On 17 December 2007, Hugh Logue was appointed as a director to Inter-Trade Ireland the North-South Body established under the Belfast Agreement to promote economic development in Ireland.

Hugh Logue was economist at the Dublin-based National Board for Science and Technology from 1981 to 1984.

Hugh Logue, after leaving the European Commission in 2005, became involved in Renewable Energy and is chairman of Priority Resources as well as a director of two companies, one in Solar Energy, the other in Wind Energy.