European Elections Would we have be better off with Royston?

[Minister3]

For all the news or achievements that has coming back from "Our Dublin M.E.P.S." in the past 4 years since they have been elected would we not have been better off with Royston Brady at least he'd have made some noise.
With 15 or 16 months to go I'm hard pressed apart from 5 or 6 lines in a side column that most would miss in a newspaper to even think of any noteworthy achievement or any issue of relevance to Dubliners that any of the M.E.P.S. in Dublin have achieved. In the last Parliament we saw Neil Andrews working and making a name for himself on humanitarian work.De Rossa was always vocal and we knew something of what they were doing.Any comments

[MacCoise]

Well at least Royston would have voted to respect the outcome of our referendum unlike de Rossa

[Minister3]

Well at least we know that De Rossa is alive and well and making a noise about something

[drjimryan]

royston is a loss to all level of our political structure.

He would have been an excellent advocate in europe...

Eoin who?....not a word have i heard......

[Anorakphobia]

Yeh, Royston has surprised many and is now more Michael Corleone to Cyprian's Fredo.

[Squire Allworthy]

MEPs generally are low profile. It could be said that the job is fairly unimportant or perhaps what is involved in the job and the travel limits MEPs ability to raise issues in the local press.

I for one would like to see a lot more power residing in the European parliament and it having one permanent location. Part of the problem with the EU is the lack of performance of our MEPs in making us aware of the issues and what is being decided. Because of this we feel a detachment a feeling as though we were something separate and that the association was peripheral when in truth it is the other way round.

This is not just an Irish problem. Ask most people who their local MEPs are and I bet they would struggle.

[meriwether]

No.

[cllr]

Don't tempt me to answer that question!

[dail usher]

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Eoin who?....not a word have i (sic) heard......

Clearly you don't read newspapers, listen to the radio or watch TV. Last week Eoin Ryan brought the Sudanese Civil Right activist and Sakharov Prize winner, Salih Osman to Ireland to talk about the horrors in Darfur.

This thread is a nasty and pathetic attack on a decent, honest and dedicated MEP - motivated by petty and small minded non entities.

I hope Cllr doesn't plan to join them

[pauriceenjack]

The aare more pressing matters for the party than this distraction


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