# meps - Saturday 11 January, 2020
Irish MEPs regret that Brexit has become an inevitability, with one saying that “as an Irish person, I can’t feel any happiness” towards the certainty it created.
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# meps - Sunday 27 October, 2019
All the UK MEPs were due to leave the European Parliament on 31 October, but this now remains up in the air.
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# meps - Thursday 24 October, 2019
The EU parliament rejected a vote asking member states to step up efforts to save asylum seekers in the Mediterranean.
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# meps - Tuesday 16 July, 2019
MEPs will vote today on whether to elect the German defence minister to the European Commission top job.
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# meps - Sunday 7 July, 2019
Committee memberships, travel woes and accidentally calling the fire department. All in a week’s work.
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# meps - Tuesday 2 July, 2019
Irish MEPs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace both wore ‘Free Assange’ t-shirts today, so is this allowed?
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# meps - Tuesday 28 May, 2019
Last night, the count was suspended until 11am today.
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# meps - Monday 27 May, 2019
Stick with us as we bring you the latest updates all evening and into the night.
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# meps - Tuesday 14 May, 2019
The first proper debate takes place on Virgin Media One tomorrow night.
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# meps - Tuesday 7 May, 2019
There’s two elections, a referendum… and plebiscites in certain areas.
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# meps - Sunday 28 April, 2019
Have you been paying attention to these politicians over the last five years?
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# meps - Monday 15 April, 2019
13 Irish MEPs will be elected when voters go to the polls on 24 May.
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# meps - Monday 4 March, 2019
Clocks go forward this year on Sunday 31 March.
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# meps - Tuesday 19 February, 2019
Ireland was allotted the additional two seats as part of the redistribution of seats due to Brexit.
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# meps - Tuesday 29 January, 2019
Brexit is also impacting on May’s European elections
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# meps - Sunday 6 January, 2019
The Irish government and the EU says they’re not preparing for a hard border – here’s what three Irish MEPs think.
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# meps - Wednesday 24 January, 2018
There will be 73 vacant MEP seats after the UK withdraws from the European Union.
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# meps - Monday 15 January, 2018
The practice involves dragging an electrified net across the sea floor, stunning all of the marine life in its path.
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# meps - Tuesday 24 October, 2017
More than a dozen women spoke to the Sunday Times this week and accused politicians of harassment.
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# meps - Monday 18 July, 2016
The Independent MEP says he’s the only Irish member who regularly shows up for the Agriculture Committee. FactCheck puts that claim to the test.
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# meps - Wednesday 11 May, 2016
One Irish MEP was unable to attend plenary sessions in 2015 due to illness.
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# meps - Tuesday 5 May, 2015
They’ve also been making fewer speeches and asking fewer questions.
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# meps - Monday 15 December, 2014
Ireland ranks last out of all Member States for attendance at plenary sessions.
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# meps - Tuesday 25 November, 2014
Pope Francis has made a speech in the European Parliament this morning
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# meps - Friday 3 October, 2014
Garda whistleblower John Wilson has said he will fund raise for Nessa Childer’s legal costs in the case that Phil Hogan proceeds with threatened action.
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# meps - Sunday 25 May, 2014
Find out who has won a seat, who is ripping up their posters – and who is arguing over the result.
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# meps - Thursday 22 May, 2014
If you’re feeling disillusioned with politics, you’re not alone – and that’s why you need to make your voice heard.
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The elections come a day early, if you’re lucky enough to live on an island off the west or northwest coast.
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# meps - Tuesday 20 May, 2014
Ten counties. Four seats. Exactly 96 hours until the polls open.
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# meps - Tuesday 13 May, 2014
This butcher in Cashel’s promising his vote to the Greens. Other locals are also pledging their number ones to Grace O’Sullivan — but, it turns out, some are more genuine than others…
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# meps - Sunday 11 May, 2014
A poll in the UK showed only one in ten voters can name their MEP… Will you be casting a ballot on Friday week?
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# meps - Saturday 10 May, 2014
The list of ‘replacements’ that could end up taking MEP seats also includes pro-life and LGBT campaigners, a former army officer, and an ex-world champion athlete.
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# meps - Saturday 15 March, 2014
The European Parliament has voted in favour of a motion calling for the publishing of the letter.
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# meps - Friday 28 February, 2014
Meanwhile, fourteen elected representatives didn’t declare their donation statements and may now face prosecution.
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# meps - Wednesday 22 January, 2014
Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…
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# meps - Tuesday 14 January, 2014
A group of MEPs met with the Commissioner for Regional Development in Strasbourg this morning.
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# meps - Saturday 30 November, 2013
The measures could restrict the amount of nicotine allowed in electronic cigarettes, which have been marketed as a way for smokers to wean themselves off the habit.
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# meps - Wednesday 20 November, 2013
But France is likely to block any changes to the current system whereby MEPs decamp, at considerable cost, to Strasbourg every month.
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The former junior minister and TD wants to give someone else a chance and will not seek re-election to the European Parliament next year.
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One of those surveyed answered sincerely that they believed Angela Merkel was their MEP.
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