Cork MEP Brian Crowley will be entitled to severance payments of more than €350,000 over the next two years and a pension pot of €1.4m, the Irish Examiner can reveal.
Mon, 06 May, 2019
Mon, 08 Jan, 2018
Des O’Sullivan on an important and historic sale of primary sources for the Irish revolutionary period.
Sat, 15 Apr, 2017
Plans by the European Commission to allow claims that sugary drinks and energy drinks containing caffeine boost alertness or concentration have been vetoed by the European Parliament.
Sat, 09 Jul, 2016
Nurse Sara Childers decided on a rather unusual way of quitting her job at the Western State Hospital in the US state of Washington.
Thu, 30 Jun, 2016
The Naval Service yesterday pointed to an increasing number of third-level graduates entering the force as ordinary recruits.
Fri, 20 May, 2016
Tue, 03 Nov, 2015
And now for something completely different, we take a look at some of the lighter stories from the happenings of the European Union.
Mon, 22 Jun, 2015
Looking around Bill O’Herlihy’s office raised an immediate question.
Tue, 26 May, 2015
Measuring how much water is used by households is a basic pre-condition under EU rules, but how much to charge for water is up to the Government, according to the European Commission.
Wed, 10 Dec, 2014
The Irish appear to have discovered an unusual secret to living longer according to a comprehensive study of European countries health systems.
Thu, 04 Dec, 2014
Independent and Sinn Féin members of the European Parliament defended themselves against accusations of not “putting on the green jersey” in Europe.
Tue, 02 Dec, 2014
An Irish MEP is calling for the roll-out of water charges to be suspended until a proper system is in place.
Thu, 23 Oct, 2014
A defiant Phil Hogan, newly confirmed as the EU’s Agriculture Commissioner, repeated his threat to sue MEP Nessa Childers for defamation, demanding that she withdraw her accusation that he discriminated against a Traveller family in Kilkenny.
Fri, 03 Oct, 2014
Former minister Phil Hogan can expect a baptism of fire when he faces a grilling from members of the European Parliament this morning in Brussels on his suitability to become agriculture commissioner.
Thu, 02 Oct, 2014
Enda Kenny isn’t the only one having his commitment to "new politics" questioned these days. Look at poor Phil Hogan, who thought he had sailed away from all that stuff, into the lucrative waters of the EU Commission.
Sat, 27 Sep, 2014
Members of the European Parliament have been assured they need not fear court action from Commissioner designate Phil Hogan if they ask him questions about his alleged actions in the past.
Legal warnings, including a threat of court action against an Irish MEP, from Ireland’s Commissioner designate, Phil Hogan, is threatening to become a major issue at his parliament hearing next week.
Fri, 26 Sep, 2014
There have been renewed calls for an overhaul of the Vat system after complaints that lapdancing clubs are paying less than Irish dancing schools.
Wed, 24 Sep, 2014
Independent MEP Nessa Childers has said the nomination of Phil Hogan as Ireland’s Commissioner-designate is a step backwards for equality and told the European Parliament’s second largest grouping of MEPs that she has serious reservations considering his appointment to the Commission.
Wed, 03 Sep, 2014
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan’s bid for a Dublin European seat failed after Independent MEP Nessa Childers made a surprise comeback and relieved Fine Gael minister Brian Hayes managed to cling onto the third and final seat.
Tue, 27 May, 2014
The rise and rise of Sinn Féin — due in no small part to girl power — continued last night with the election in the South constituency of Liadh Ní Riada.
Eamon Ryan's bid for a European seat in Dublin has failed.
Mon, 26 May, 2014
Counting will resume in Cork and Castlebar this morning as efforts to elect four MEP's in Ireland South and Midlands North West continues.
Sinn Féin's Lynn Boylan has been elected in the Dublin constituency European elections after the third count.
Independent candidate Nessa Childers has lodged a formal complaint with RTÉ alleging bias in its reporting of the European Election campaign.
Fri, 23 May, 2014
The past is a different country for Nessa Childers.
Mon, 19 May, 2014
A new opinion poll shows fights for several seats in the European elections.
Sat, 03 May, 2014
Gilmore is safe for now, but a drubbing at the polls could reignite the debate, says Political Editor Mary Regan.
Tue, 29 Apr, 2014
In the first of two articles marking the 70th anniversary of the infamous American Note, Ryle Dwyer examines the bogus issues surrounding the controversy
Fri, 21 Feb, 2014
Parties of the left, including Sinn Féin, will be the largest single group in the next European Parliament, taking power from centre right parties that include Fine Gael, according to the latest poll.
Thu, 20 Feb, 2014
Independent MEP Nessa Childers is calling on the Health Minister James Reilly to abide by his medical ethical obligations and to refuse to implement any more health cuts.
Wed, 11 Dec, 2013
Presidential campaign hits a snag
Mon, 11 Nov, 2013
It goes without saying that Vat is no laughing matter, but some of the rules are a joke — take, for example, the 0% Vat that hiring a limo attracts, while, on the other hand, hiring a wheelchair will cost you an additional 23%.
Tue, 17 Sep, 2013
Another change on cards for Childers
Mon, 16 Sep, 2013
Labour MEP Nessa Childers has written to Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore confirming her resignation from the party.
Wed, 24 Jul, 2013
Childers challenges fracking regulations
Mon, 15 Jul, 2013
Ireland East MEP, Nessa Childers, is calling on the Taoiseach Enda Kenny to press strongly at the G8 Summit for a new international taxation framework.
Sun, 16 Jun, 2013
The Taoiseach has been accused of jeopardising new EU tobacco laws by holding secret talks with industry representatives.
Sat, 25 May, 2013
IT IS difficult to imagine now the intensity of the controversy that was stirred by the Treaty oath, or the fact that history could have ignored for so long that it was Michael Collins who essentially proposed that oath.
Mon, 06 May, 2013
The resignation of Nessa Childers from the parliamentary Labour Party focuses public attention on the complete absence of legitimacy of Labour Party and Socialist Party representation in the European Parliament.
Wed, 10 Apr, 2013
Eamon Gilmore has defended his leadership of the Labour Party amid questions raised about his tenure by frustrated party members.
Mon, 08 Apr, 2013
Labour leader Eamon Gilmore suffered a fresh blow as an MEP quit the party and accused him of seeking to “hurt people”.
Sat, 06 Apr, 2013
The resignation of Nessa Childers from the Parliamentary Labour Party is likely to fuel further uneasiness within that party.
MEP Nessa Childers has said she felt it would have been "morally corrupt" of her to stay in the Parliamentary Labour Party.
Fri, 05 Apr, 2013
MEP Nessa Childers has said she believes the Labour Party could be "completely destroyed" by its involvement in the current Coalition Government and may "never come back again".
Nessa Childers has resigned from the Labour Parliamentary Party.
A Labour MEP has branded the bailout deal for Cyprus an "incompetent mess" and says that it has destabilised the Eurozone.
Wed, 27 Mar, 2013
A Labour MEP has revealed she is disturbed by some of her party’s austerity measures in Government.
Thu, 14 Feb, 2013
The Department of Finance has rejected a proposal from the funds sector in the Financial Services Centre to create a new corporate funds structure in Ireland, warning it could damage the country’s tax reputation and be frowned upon by other EU countries.
Wed, 16 Jan, 2013
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