'Cold storage' MEPs will have no legal status until after Brexit

Ireland's two 'second-tier' MEPs will have no salary, status or function in the EU Parliament until after Brexit occurs, it has been confirmed.

'Cold storage' MEPs will have no legal status until after Brexit

Ireland's two 'second-tier' MEPs will have no salary, status or function in the EU Parliament until after Brexit occurs, it has been confirmed.

The EU Parliament office in Dublin has told the Irish Examiner that Fianna Fail's Barry Andrews and whoever fills the final seat in Ireland South will be left out in the cold until after the UK formally leaves the union.

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