Let’s have one constituency for European polls

THE Boundary Commission on changes to the European parliamentary constituencies is going to have a difficult job trying to draw boundaries that will make sense.

This problem has occurred firstly because Ireland will lose two MEPs to allow for enlargement and, secondly, the Irish population has increased dramatically and migrated from the west to the east since the last election in 1999.

In the future our population is likely to continue increasing and migrating, and Ireland will lose another couple of MEPs in the next rounds of enlargement to include Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and the rest of the Balkans.