Labour MEP wants to quit Brussels and run for Dáil

THE Labour Party MEP for Ireland South Alan Kelly wants to leave Brussels less than two years after he was elected and win a Dáil seat in Tipperary north instead.

In June 2009 he won a European Parliament seat to represent five of the six munster counties.

At that time he denied accusations it was a “PR exercise” to build his profile ahead of a Dáil run.