List of female members of the European Parliament for Ireland

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This is a list of women who have served as members of the European Parliament for Ireland .

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  Denotes incumbent member of the European Parliament
NameConstituencyNational party EP group Term
start		Term
end
Eileen Desmond [s 1] Munster Labour PES 1979 1981 [nb 1]
Síle de Valera [s 3] Dublin Fianna Fáil EPD 1979 1984 [nb 2]
Mary Banotti [s 5] Dublin Fine Gael EPP [nb 3] 1984 2004 [nb 4]
Eileen Lemass [s 8] Dublin Fianna Fáil EDA 1984 1989 [nb 5]
Nuala Ahern [s 10] Leinster Green G 1994 1999 [nb 6]
Greens/EFA 1999 2004 [nb 7]
Bernie Malone [s 13] Dublin Labour PES 1994 1999 [nb 8]
Patricia McKenna [s 15] Dublin Green G 1994 1999 [nb 6]
Greens/EFA 1999 2004 [nb 9]
Avril Doyle [s 17] Leinster Fine Gael EPP–ED [nb 3] 1999 2009 [nb 10]
Dana Rosemary Scallon [s 20] Connacht–Ulster Independent EPP–ED [nb 3] 1999 2004 [nb 11]
Marian Harkin [s 22] North-West Independent ALDE 2004 2014 [nb 12]
Midlands–North-West 2014 [nb 12] 2019 [nb 13]
Mary Lou McDonald [s 25] Dublin Sinn Féin GUE/NGL 2004 2009 [nb 14]
Mairead McGuinness [s 27] East Fine Gael EPP–ED [nb 3] 2004 2014 [s 28]
Midlands–North-West 2014 2020 [s 28]
Kathy Sinnott [s 29] South Independent IND/DEM 2004 2009 [nb 15]
Nessa Childers [s 31] East Labour S&D 2009 2013 [nb 16]
Independent NI 2013 [nb 17] 2014 [nb 18]
Dublin [nb 18] Independent S&D 2014 2019 [nb 19]
Phil Prendergast [s 35] South Labour S&D 2011 [nb 20] 2014 [nb 21]
Emer Costello [s 37] Dublin Labour S&D 2012 [nb 22] 2014 [nb 23]
Lynn Boylan [s 39] Dublin Sinn Féin GUE/NGL 2014 2019 [nb 24]
Deirdre Clune [s 41] South Fine Gael EPP 2014 2024 [nb 25] [nb 26]
Liadh Ní Riada [s 44] South Sinn Féin GUE/NGL 2014 2019 [nb 27]
Frances Fitzgerald [s 46] Dublin Fine Gael EPP 2019 2024 [s 47] [nb 28]
Clare Daly [s 49] Dublin Inds. 4 Change GUE/NGL 2019 2024 [s 50] [nb 29]
Grace O'Sullivan [s 52] South Green Greens/EFA 2019 2024 [s 53] [nb 30]
Maria Walsh [s 55] Midlands–North-West Fine Gael EPP 2019 Incumbent [s 56]
Lynn Boylan Dublin Sinn Féin The Left 2024 Incumbent
Nina Carberry Midlands–North-West Fine Gael EPP 2024 Incumbent
Regina Doherty Dublin Fine Gael EPP 2024 Incumbent
Kathleen Funchion South Sinn Féin The Left 2024 Incumbent
Cynthia Ní Mhurchú South Fianna Fáil RE 2024 Incumbent

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Eileen Desmond resigned on 7 July 1981 and was substituted by Seán Treacy on 9 July 1981. [s 2]
  2. ↑ Síle de Valera did not contest the 1984 election. [s 4]
  3. 1 2 3 4 From 1999 to 2009, the European People's Party was known as the European People's Party–European Democrats. [s 6]
  4. ↑ Mary Banotti did not contest the 2004 election. [s 7]
  5. ↑ Eileen Lemass was defeated at the 1989 election. [s 9]
  6. 1 2 Both the Irish Green MEPs (Nuala Ahern and Patricia McKenna) sat from 1994 to 1999 as members of The Green Group in the European Parliament. After the 1999 election, they joined the new European Greens–European Free Alliance, an alliance of greens and regionalists.
  7. ↑ Nuala Ahern did not contest the 2004 election. [s 11] [s 12]
  8. ↑ Bernie Malone did not contest the 1999 election. [s 14]
  9. ↑ Patricia McKenna did not contest the 2004 election. [s 16]
  10. ↑ Avril Doyle did not contest the 2009 election. [s 18] [s 19]
  11. ↑ The Connacht–Ulster constituency was abolished at the 2004 election. Dana Rosemary Scallon contested the new North-West constituency, where she was defeated. [s 21]
  12. 1 2 The North-West constituency was abolished at the 2014 election, when Marian Harkin was elected for the new Midlands–North-West constituency. [s 23]
  13. ↑ Marian Harkin did not contest the 2019 election. [s 24]
  14. ↑ Mary Lou McDonald was defeated at the 2009 election. [s 26]
  15. ↑ Kathy Sinnott was defeated at the 2009 election. [s 30]
  16. ↑ Nessa Childers resigned from the parliamentary Labour Party in April 2013. [s 31] [s 32]
  17. ↑ Having left Labour, Nessa Childers sat as a Non-Inscrit until the 2014 election. [s 31]
  18. 1 2 The East constituency was abolished at the 2014 election. Nessa Childers stood in the Dublin constituency, where she won a seat. [s 33]
  19. ↑ Nessa Childers did not contest the 2019 election. [s 34]
  20. ↑ Alan Kelly was substituted by Phil Prendergast, after he was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2011 general election. [s 36]
  21. ↑ Phil Prendergast was defeated at the 2014 election.
  22. ↑ Proinsias De Rossa was substituted by Emer Costello, after he resigned from the European Parliament in February 2012.
  23. ↑ Emer Costello was defeated at the 2014 election. [s 38]
  24. ↑ Lynn Boylan was defeated at the 2019 election. [s 40]
  25. ↑ After the 2019 election, Clune did not re-take her seat 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. [s 42]
  26. ↑ Deirdre Clune did not contest the 2024 election. [s 43]
  27. ↑ Liadh Ní Riada was defeated at the 2019 election. [s 45]
  28. ↑ Frances Fitzgerald did not contest the 2024 election. [s 48]
  29. ↑ Clare Daly was defeated at the 2024 election. [s 51]
  30. ↑ Grace O'Sullivan was defeated at the 2024 election. [s 54]

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