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The constituency was created in 1979 for the first direct elections to the European Parliament. [3] It has always contained the whole of County Dublin and the city of Dublin only (with the county defined since 1994 as the counties of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Fingal, South Dublin).
The Electoral Commission sought submissions on a review of European Parliament Constituencies. [5] In a report in November 2023, it recommended that the additional seat be given to the constituency of Midlands–North-West, with the transfer of County Laois and County Offaly from South.
He was a member of South Dublin County Council for the Palmerstown–Fonthill area from 2019 to 2024. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He was a candidate at the 2019 Dublin Mid-West by-election , caused by the departure of Fine Gael 's Frances Fitzgerald to the European Parliament , in which Sinn Féin 's Mark Ward won the seat.
Barry Andrews (born 16 May 1967) is an Irish politician who serves as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency. He is a member of Fianna Fáil, part of Renew Europe. He previously served as Minister of State for Children from 2008 to 2011. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dún Laoghaire constituency from 2002 to ...
Ciarán Cuffe (born 3 April 1963) is an Irish politician who has been co-chair of the European Green Party (EGP) since December 2024. [1] He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the Dublin constituency from July 2019 to July 2024.
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Before the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU, there was a 3-member single transferable vote constituency covering Northern Ireland. The constituencies covering England, Scotland, and Wales changed several times: Between 1979 and 1994, there were 78 first-past-the-post single-member constituencies.
He previously served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Bay North constituency from the 2020 general election to 2024, and from 2011 to 2016 for the Dublin North-Central constituency. He served as a Minister of State from 2014 to 2016. He was a Senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel from 2016 to 2020. [1] [2]