See also
- Members of the European Parliament (2019–2024) – List by country
- List of members of the European Parliament (2019–2024) – Full alphabetical list
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This is a list of the members of the European Parliament for Ireland elected at the 2019 European Parliament election. They served in the 2019 to 2024 session, but two of them did not take their seats until the reallocation of seats which took place when the MEPs elected for the United Kingdom vacated their seats on the implementation of Brexit on 31 January 2020.
| Party | Outgoing | Constituency | Reason | Date | Replacement | |
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| Sinn Féin | Matt Carthy | Midlands–North-West | Carthy elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2020 general election | 8 February 2020 | Chris MacManus | |
| Fine Gael | Mairead McGuinness | Midlands–North-West | McGuinness appointed as European Commissioner | 20 November 2020 | Colm Markey | |
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