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About Mickey Smyth
- Michael "Mickey" Smyth (27 April 1921 – 7 May 1981) was an Irish trade unionist and Labour Party politician.
- He was Mayor of Galway from 1971 to 1972. Smyth was one of six children born to Patrick Smyth and Barbara Crowley of Prospect Hill, Galway City.
- He was a shop steward in the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, and in 1963 became a founder member of the city's first credit union, St.
- Columba's Credit Union Limited, Mervue.
- He was to continue working for the Credit Union for the rest of his life.
- He was a member, and later chairman, of the Trades Council, joined the Labour Party in the 1950s, later becoming a member of its constituency council. Smyth was elected to Galway Corporation in the early 1960s and was elected Mayor on 5 July 1971.
- It was under his auspices that the first Mayoral Ball was held, at Seapoint, Salthill, on 29 February 1872.
- At his instigation, cross-border holidays were held for children from Derry, a city he visited while Mayor. He did not seek re-election to the council in June 1974.
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