# nessa-childers - Tuesday 28 March, 2017
# Your Say
# Your Say
On the union’s sixtieth anniversary, does membership of it remain a positive thing for Ireland?
# nessa-childers - Thursday 20 November, 2014
# Six One News
# Six One News
Nessa Childers wasn’t happy with a feature on the Six One News.
# nessa-childers - Tuesday 21 October, 2014
# That's That Then
# That's That Then
Hogan sent legal letters to the MEP last month.
# nessa-childers - Friday 3 October, 2014
# Support
# Support
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.
# nessa-childers - Thursday 2 October, 2014
# Good Hearing
# Good Hearing
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.
# nessa-childers - Thursday 25 September, 2014
# Complaint
# Complaint
Here’s Childers’ letter she sent the the European Legal Affairs Committee last night.
# nessa-childers - Wednesday 3 September, 2014
# EU Commission
# EU Commission
She said Hogan’s appointment in Europe would be “a step backwards for equality.”
# nessa-childers - Wednesday 28 May, 2014
# Squeaky Bum Time
# Squeaky Bum Time
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.
# nessa-childers - Monday 26 May, 2014
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
The counting and the recounting is all done at the RDS as Green Party leader Eamon Ryan misses out on a seat.
# Green Shoots
# Green Shoots
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.
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
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.
# nessa-childers - Tuesday 20 May, 2014
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
It’s the most geographically coherent of all the constituencies but the battle for three seats is a competitive one.
# nessa-childers - Tuesday 6 May, 2014
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
With posters erected all over the country we’ve found out what work, if any, candidates have had done on their pictures.
# nessa-childers - Tuesday 29 April, 2014
# Dublin Dogfight
# Dublin Dogfight
The Fine Gael candidate in Dublin could be in danger of not winning a seat according to an opinion poll at the weekend.
# nessa-childers - Monday 28 April, 2014
# Analysis
# Analysis
There’s plenty for the political parties and the independents to think about after the first European election poll at the weekend.
# nessa-childers - Friday 18 April, 2014
# European Elections
# European Elections
If for any reason, Nessa Childers is elected and has to resign her seat, one of her subs would take over.
# nessa-childers - Tuesday 11 March, 2014
# True Colours
# True Colours
The report gave recommendations on how to tackle inequality between men and women in the EU.
# nessa-childers - Sunday 16 February, 2014
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
The independent MEP is taking big financial gamble that could leave her unemployed by the summer.
# nessa-childers - Thursday 13 February, 2014
# News Fix
# News Fix
Everyone’s talking about storm damage, a meningitis warning and a suspicious device in the UK linked to the Republic of Ireland.
# Airbrushing
# Airbrushing
The MEP was reacting to suggestions her posters had been airbrushed.
# nessa-childers - Friday 7 February, 2014
# Shots Fired
# Shots Fired
“An act of despration and foolishness” is how the independent MEP described comments by her former Labour colleague, Emer Costello, this week.
# nessa-childers - Wednesday 5 February, 2014
# Shots Fired
# Shots Fired
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.
# nessa-childers - Wednesday 29 January, 2014
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
The former Labour MEP’s current Ireland East constituency is being abolished.
# nessa-childers - Tuesday 7 January, 2014
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
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.
# nessa-childers - Thursday 12 December, 2013
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
Former Labour MEP Nessa Childers says she has not made a final decision on her candidacy and is facing a “dilemma”.
# nessa-childers - Wednesday 20 November, 2013
# Real Life
# Real Life
One MEP is proposing that all publications featuring airbrushed images should also carry mandatory labelling.
# nessa-childers - Saturday 16 November, 2013
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
The former Labour MEP faces an uphill battle to retain her European Parliament seat next year.
# nessa-childers - Saturday 2 November, 2013
# Heritage
# Heritage
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.
# nessa-childers - Saturday 5 October, 2013
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
Phil Hogan believes candidates will need at least €100,000 if they want to be elected to the European Parliament next year.
# nessa-childers - Tuesday 10 September, 2013
# European Elections
# European Elections
The MEP says she will have to finance her own European re-election campaign to the tune of €100,000, after resigning from Labour
# nessa-childers - Wednesday 24 July, 2013
# Resignation
# Resignation
Childers had already resigned from the parliamentary party in April but is now going to run as an independent.
# nessa-childers - Thursday 4 July, 2013
# Anglo Tapes
# Anglo Tapes
The Anglo Tapes have been reported throughout Europe with Angela Merkel’s tough words pleasing German voters.
# nessa-childers - Saturday 15 June, 2013
# Airbrushing
# Airbrushing
Nessa Childers MEP has called for mandatory labelling of airbrushed photographs in magazines for young people.
# nessa-childers - Monday 13 May, 2013
# Regulation
# Regulation
At a conference last week Bruton said there should be less regulation of the IFSC.
# nessa-childers - Monday 22 April, 2013
# Freedom Of Information
# Freedom Of Information
MEP Phil Prendergast said that “a blanket refusal policy would serve only to heighten distrust in government and in the ECB.”
# nessa-childers - Monday 8 April, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
Opinion polls come and go, but the public are missing the real achievements of the Labour party in government, writes Rory Geraghty.
# nessa-childers - Saturday 6 April, 2013
# Labour Pains
# Labour Pains
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.
# Labour
# Labour
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.
# nessa-childers - Friday 5 April, 2013
# Nessa Childers
# Nessa Childers
The MEP’s decision to resign from the parliamentary party was met with disappointment and criticism from her Labour colleagues today.
# Opinion
# Opinion
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.
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