MEPs: Do they work for you

Far from the days when a European Parliament seat meant a cosy retirement for spent politicians, now much more is demanded of the modern MEP, writes Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill.

SENDING clapped-out politicians to laze around the bars of Brussels and Strasbourg did not help the European Parliament’s image in Ireland.

Those days are past, but MEPs have been struggling to get voters to recognise their new powerful roles, and adjust their expectations and demands.