# 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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# meps - Tuesday 19 November, 2013
The agreement brings to near conclusion a lengthy process of getting 28 member states to agree on its spending priorities for the coming years.
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# meps - Tuesday 22 October, 2013
The proposed legislation seeks to improve transparency of information for patients and medical staff.
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# meps - Saturday 5 October, 2013
Phil Hogan believes candidates will need at least €100,000 if they want to be elected to the European Parliament next year.
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# meps - Friday 13 September, 2013
MEPs want a cap placed on the use of less environmentally friendly biofuels, and a switch to fuels derived from seaweed and other sources.
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# meps - Wednesday 11 September, 2013
The President of the European Commission told MEPs that the focus of this term should be on adopting the single banking mechanism and tackling unemployment.
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# meps - Wednesday 4 September, 2013
The proposal is one of two radical ideas put forward by Lucinda Creighton but neither are possible under the terms of reference for the Constituency Commission considering the redrawing of Ireland’s European constituency map.
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# meps - Tuesday 27 August, 2013
The newly-independent TD faces an uphill task to retain his Dáil seat at the next general election so is now considering running for Europe but he’s not made a decision yet, he insists.
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# meps - Monday 26 August, 2013
But the man who John O’Mahony is rumoured to be in line to replace, incumbent North West MEP Jim Higgins, insists he’s very confident of winning the nomination.
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# meps - Thursday 18 July, 2013
Representatives from Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann and Dublin Bus will meet the Transport committee ahead of the possibility of further strike action.
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# meps - Wednesday 3 July, 2013
After the first round of voting yesterday, Emily O’Reilly was tied at the top with Dutch politician Ria Oomen-Ruijten.
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# meps - Friday 14 June, 2013
A full-page newspaper ad, to coincide with an EU-US summit in Dublin, claims surveillance breaches United Nations conventions.
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