Alan Carr (born 1948) is a former trade unionist and politician from Northern Ireland.
Carr studied at Annadale Grammar School in Belfast and the New University of Ulster,[1] at which he founded a Labour Club.
He joined the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), and was first elected to its executive committee in 1970/71.
[2] Carr became a lecturer and administrator for the Open University, and was the NILP's leading figure from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, chairing the party for much of the period.
[1] While the British and Irish Communist Organisation claimed that he was a member of their group in the early 1970s, he was criticised by them later in the decade.