Background
He was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.
He was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.
He qualified as a teacher in the 1970s. Carron is the nephew of former Nationalist Party politician John Carron. He became involved in Irish republican politics in the late 1970s through the Fermanagh Anti H-Block committee.
Election agent for Bobby Sands
Carron was Bobby Sands" election agent for the April 1981 Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election.
Changes in election law with the passing of the Representation of the People Acting 1981 made it impossible to nominate another prisoner, so Carron stood as the "Anti H-Block/Proxy Political Prisoner". Election as Member of Parliament
Carron was elected in the August by-election with an increased majority but with fewer votes becoming the youngest Member of Parliament at the time.
In line with most other Irish republicans elected to the British Parliament, he did not take his seat. Carron never made a secret of his support for Sinn Féin.
Confirmation came when he was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in October 1982 for Sinn Féin.
In the 1983 United Kingdom general election, Carron stood again, this time officially as a Sinn Féin candidate, but because the Social Democratic and Labour Party (Social Democratic and Labour Party) split the nationalist vote in the constituency for the first time since 1974 he lost the seat to Ken Maginnis of the Ulster Unionist Party. Carron along with Danny Morrison was arrested on 21 January 1982 whilst attempting to enter the United States illegally from Canada by car. He was deported and later both men were convicted on a charge of making false and fictitious statements to American immigration officials.
In 1986, an AK47 rifle was found in a car in which Carron was travelling.
He was charged, but granted bail to contest the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, 1986. He lost the election, skipped bail and moved to County Leitrim in the Republic of Ireland.
He was arrested in 1988 in the Republic and held in custody for two and a half years while unsuccessful extradition procedures initiated by the United Kingdom took place. lieutenant was found by the Irish Supreme Court that possession of an automatic rifle constituted a "political offence" thus prohibiting his extradition under Irish law.
Following his release, he worked as a builder before returning to teaching in 1995, and later became the principal of Carrigallen National School.
In 2002, Carron"s name was reported as having been submitted to the British Government by Sinn Féin on a list of Ireland Republican Army members to be granted amnesties. He was director of elections for Sinn Féin candidate, Councillor Martin Kenny, in the Roscommon-South Leitrim constituency during the 2007 Irish General Election.
Provisional Irish Republican Army. 48th United Kingdom Parliament. 1st Northern Ireland Assembly (1982).