On the 24th of May Ireland will go to the polls to elect 13 MEP’s to the European Parliament. This is an increase of 2 seats on the 2014 elections due to the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union.
These seats will be distributed across the three constituencies as follows
- Dublin – 4 seats (+1)
- Midlands – Northwest – 4 seats (no change)
- South – 5 seats (+1)
Four sitting MEPS have confirmed that they will be stepping down at this election
- Nessa Childers – Independent (Dublin)
- Brian Crowley – Fianna Fail (South)
- Brain Hayes – Fine Gael (Dublin)
- Markian Harkin – Independent (Midlands-NorthWest)
The following are the candidates selected to run in each constituency.
Nominations have now closed.
Last updated 15th April 2019
DUBLIN
- Barry Andrews – Fianna Fail
- Lynn Boylan – Sinn Fein (Sitting MEP)
- Gillian Brien – People Before Profit
- Ciaran Cuffe – Green Party
- Clare Daly – Independents for Change
- Mark Durkan – Fine Gael
- Frances Fitzgerald – Fine Gael
- Gary Gannon – Social Democrats
- Ben Gilroy – Ind
- Rita Harrold – Solidarity
- Alice-Mary Higgins – Ind
- Herman Kelly – Irexit
- Tony Bosco Louth – Ind
- Aisling McNiffe – Ind
- Mark Mullan – Ind
- Eamonn Murphy – Ind
- Gemma O’Doherty – Ind
- Eilis Ryan – Workers Party
- Alex White – Labour
MIDLANDS – NORTHWEST
- Cyril Brennan – People Before Profit
- Matt Carthy – Sinn Fein (Sitting MEP)
- Peter Casey – Independent
- Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan – Independent (Sitting MEP)
- Patrick Greene – DDI
- Dominic Hannigan – Labour
- Fidelma Healy Eames – Independent
- Dilip Mahapatra – Independent
- Mairead McGuiness – Fine Gael (Sitting MEP)
- Saoirse McHugh – Green Party
- James Miller – Ind
- Diarmuid Mulcahy – Ind
- Olive O’Connor – Ind
- Michael O’Dowd – Renua
- Anne Rabbitte – Fianna Fail
- Brendan Smith – Fianna Fail
- Maria Walsh – Fine Gael
SOUTH
- Allan Brennan – Ind
- Malcolm Byrne – Fianna Fail
- Delores Cahill – Irexit
- Deirdre Clune – Fine Gael (Sitting MEP)
- Andrew Doyle – Fine Gael
- Paddy Fitzgerald – Independent
- Breda Gardner -Independent
- Theresa Heaney – Catholic Democrats
- Billy Kelleher – Fianna Fail
- Sean Kelly – Fine Gael (Sitting MEP)
- Peter Madden – Ind
- Liam Minehan – Ind
- Liadha Ni Riadha – Sinn Fein (Sitting MEP)
- Sheila Nunan – Labour
- Diarmuid O’Flynn – Ind
- Peter O’Loughlin – Identity Ireland
- Grace O’Sullivan – Green Party
- Walter Ryan Purcell – Ind
- Maurice Joseph Sexton – Ind
- Jan Van De Ven – DDI
- Adrianne Wallace – People Before Profit
- Mick Wallace – Independents for Change
- Colleen Worthington – Ind