Political Career
With his high profile as a singer, Berry was elected, aged 22, the youngest MLA in the first Northern Ireland Assembly as a DUP representative for the Newry and Armagh constituency in the 1998 election and was re-elected in the 2003 election.
He was elected to Armagh City and District Council in 2001, and re-elected in the 2005 elections.
In the 2005 general election Berry was the DUP candidate for Newry and Armagh constituency.
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