Former Green Party MEP Patricia McKenna is to contest the next General Election in the Taoiseach's Dublin Central constituency.

The Green Party has launched its campaign against US President George W Bush’s visit to Ireland later this month.

The public needs to know the Government is planning a national primary road through the Wicklow mountains, Green Party TD Eamon Ryan warned today.

SINN FÉIN has high hopes of returning the party’s first MEPs in both the North and South next year.

Ireland is facing imminent court action over its failure to comply with EU regulations on controlling substances that damage the ozone layer.

GREEN Party TD Ciarán Cuffe lacked political cop-on by holding onto shares in unethical companies, his party colleague MEP Patricia McKenna said yesterday.

THE Irish Government is breaking the law by charging citizens for taking part in the planning process, the EC has warned.

Green MEP Patricia McKenna is to travel to New York later today to meet with senior UN officials.

The Government should act on the anti-war message delivered by 90,000 protesters in Dublin on Saturday, the Green Party said today.

PRESIDENT of the European Parliament Pat Cox was last night caught in the middle of a row that led to the cancellation of a major meeting with politicians from some of the world’s poorest nations.

REJECTING the Nice Treaty will cause an unprecedented crisis in the European Union, the leader of the nation which holds the Union’s presidency said yesterday.

OVER 2,600 outstanding deportation orders issued against illegal immigrants will be implemented as soon as possible, Justice Minister Michael McDowell said yesterday.

Green MEP Patricia McKenna has called on the government to improve its dismal record on the environment.

Irish MEPs have welcomed the establishment by the Government of a Forum for Europe in the wake of last week's No vote in the referendum on the Nice Treaty.

Green MEP Patricia McKenna is calling on the Government to support Austria's opposition to increasing loans for the nuclear industry.