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On the union’s sixtieth anniversary, does membership of it remain a positive thing for Ireland?
Nessa Childers wasn’t happy with a feature on the Six One News.
Hogan sent legal letters to the MEP last month.
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.
Big Phil’s anticipated ‘Big Grilling’ failed to materialise at the EU Parliament this morning, and the agriculture committee has now voted to back him as commissioner.
Here’s Childers’ letter she sent the the European Legal Affairs Committee last night.
She said Hogan’s appointment in Europe would be “a step backwards for equality.”
In the teeth of a four-way battle for the final Dublin seat, a seat which she won, TheJournal.ie joined Nessa Childers on the campaign trail.
The counting and the recounting is all done at the RDS as Green Party leader Eamon Ryan misses out on a seat.
Ryan finished in a tight fourth place in the three-seater Euro constituency. Indpendent MEP Nessa Childers has also arrived at the RDS this afternoon.
The Green Party leader is less than 1,200 votes behind Fine Gael’s Brian Hayes and has asked for a recount on Monday. Earlier, Sinn Féin’s Lynn Boylan took the first of three available seats in the capital.
It’s the most geographically coherent of all the constituencies but the battle for three seats is a competitive one.
With posters erected all over the country we’ve found out what work, if any, candidates have had done on their pictures.
The Fine Gael candidate in Dublin could be in danger of not winning a seat according to an opinion poll at the weekend.
There’s plenty for the political parties and the independents to think about after the first European election poll at the weekend.
If for any reason, Nessa Childers is elected and has to resign her seat, one of her subs would take over.
The report gave recommendations on how to tackle inequality between men and women in the EU.
The independent MEP is taking big financial gamble that could leave her unemployed by the summer.
Everyone’s talking about storm damage, a meningitis warning and a suspicious device in the UK linked to the Republic of Ireland.
The MEP was reacting to suggestions her posters had been airbrushed.
“An act of despration and foolishness” is how the independent MEP described comments by her former Labour colleague, Emer Costello, this week.
Costello has linked her new constituency rival to other non-aligned independents in the European Parliament such as the controversial former UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom.
The former Labour MEP’s current Ireland East constituency is being abolished.
We’ll have to wait until the end of the month to find out where the former Labour MEP will be running in May’s elections.
Former Labour MEP Nessa Childers says she has not made a final decision on her candidacy and is facing a “dilemma”.
One MEP is proposing that all publications featuring airbrushed images should also carry mandatory labelling.
The former Labour MEP faces an uphill battle to retain her European Parliament seat next year.
A local group has said that there is a medieval gable wall at one of the houses but the council said there is not yet sufficient evidence of this.
Phil Hogan believes candidates will need at least €100,000 if they want to be elected to the European Parliament next year.
The MEP says she will have to finance her own European re-election campaign to the tune of €100,000, after resigning from Labour
Childers had already resigned from the parliamentary party in April but is now going to run as an independent.
The Anglo Tapes have been reported throughout Europe with Angela Merkel’s tough words pleasing German voters.
Nessa Childers MEP has called for mandatory labelling of airbrushed photographs in magazines for young people.
At a conference last week Bruton said there should be less regulation of the IFSC.
MEP Phil Prendergast said that “a blanket refusal policy would serve only to heighten distrust in government and in the ECB.”
Opinion polls come and go, but the public are missing the real achievements of the Labour party in government, writes Rory Geraghty.
Up to 100 members of the party gathered in Dublin this morning to demand change. They want to see more Labour policies implemented in government.
The MEP will address a meeting of the Campaign for Labour Policies group in Dublin today which is likely to hear plenty of criticism of the junior coalition party.
The MEP’s decision to resign from the parliamentary party was met with disappointment and criticism from her Labour colleagues today.
Eamon Gilmore will have one less Christmas card to write now – but if Labour took its MEPs seriously, this may never have happened, writes Nessa Childers’ former parliamentary assistant Ciara Galvin.