Irish MEPs praised for voting record by eurosceptic group

IRELAND’S representatives in Europe’s parliament have been rated highly for their record on transparency and EU reform in a league table published by a British eurosceptic think-tank.

The country’s MEPs came sixth of the 27 member countries in the report.

Four of the country’s five female MEPs topped the Irish list, having voted for sanctions against MEPs caught cheating on their expenses, and also to scrap subsidies to tobacco farmers and to abolish their second seat in Strasbourg.