List of female members of the European Parliament for Ireland explained

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

List

Name	Constituency	National party		EP group		Term start	Term end
data-sort-value="Desmond, Eileen"	Eileen Desmond^[1]	Munster			1979	1981
data-sort-value="De Valera, Sile"	Síle de Valera^[2]	Dublin			1979
data-sort-value="Banotti, Mary"	Mary Banotti^[3]	Dublin			1984
data-sort-value="Lemass, Eileen"	Eileen Lemass^[4]	Dublin			1984
Nuala Ahern^[5]	Leinster				1994	1999^[6]
					1999
data-sort-value="Malone, Bernie"	Bernie Malone^[7]	Dublin			1994
Patricia McKenna^[8]	Dublin				1994	1999
					1999
data-sort-value="Doyle, Avril"	Avril Doyle^[9]	Leinster			1999
data-sort-value="Scallon, Dana"	Dana Rosemary Scallon^[10]	Connacht–Ulster			1999
Marian Harkin^[11]	North-West				ALDE	2004
	Midlands–North-West					2014
data-sort-value="McDonald, Mary Lou"	Mary Lou McDonald^[12]	Dublin			2004
^[13]	East				EPP–ED		2014
	Midlands–North-West						2020 ^[14]
data-sort-value="Sinnott, Kathy"	Kathy Sinnott^[15]	South			2004
Nessa Childers^[16]	East			2009	2013
				2013	2014
				2014
data-sort-value="Prendergast, Phil"	Phil Prendergast^[17]	South			2011
data-sort-value="Costello, Emer"	Emer Costello^[18]	Dublin			2012
data-sort-value="Boylan, Lynn"	Lynn Boylan^[19]	Dublin
data-sort-value="Clune, Deirdre"	Deirdre Clune^[20]	South
data-sort-value="Ni Riada, Liadh"	Liadh Ní Riada^[21]	South
data-sort-value="Fitzgerald, Fr"	Frances Fitzgerald^[22]	Dublin				2024^[23]
data-sort-value="Daly, Clare"	Clare Daly^[24]	Dublin				2024^[25]
data-sort-value="O'Sullivan, Grace"	Grace O'Sullivan^[26]	South				2024^[27]
data-sort-value="Walsh, Maria"	Maria Walsh^[28]	Midlands–North-West				Incumbent ^[29]
data-sort-value="Boylan, Lynn"	Lynn Boylan	Dublin				Incumbent
data-sort-value="Carberry, Nina"	Nina Carberry	Midlands–North-West				Incumbent
data-sort-value="Doherty, Regina"	Regina Doherty	Dublin				Incumbent
data-sort-value="Funchion, Kathleen"	Kathleen Funchion	South				Incumbent
data-sort-value="Ni Mhurchu, Cynthia"	Cynthia Ní Mhurchú	South				Incumbent

Sources

• European Parliament office in Ireland – Irish MEPs: 1979–84. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
• European Parliament office in Ireland – Irish MEPs: 1984–89. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
• European Parliament office in Ireland – Irish MEPs: 1989–94. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
• European Parliament office in Ireland – Irish MEPs: 1994–99. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
• European Parliament office in Ireland – Irish MEPs: 1999–2004. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
• European Parliament office in Ireland – Irish MEPs: 2004–09. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
• European Parliament office in Ireland – Irish MEPs: 2009–14. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
• European Parliament office in Ireland – Irish MEPs: 2014–19. Retrieved 5 January 2017.

Notes and References

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6. 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.
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14. Web site: Mairead McGuinness . ElectionsIreland.org . 5 January 2017 . 10 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170710141948/http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2572 . live .
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22. . Retrieved 2 March 2020.
23. Web site: Frances Fitzgerald . ElectionsIreland.org . 2 March 2020 . 17 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200717104414/https://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=3992 . live .
24. . Retrieved 2 March 2020.
25. Web site: Clare Daly . ElectionsIreland.org . 2 March 2020 . 16 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200716180616/https://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=336 . live .
26. . Retrieved 2 March 2020.
27. Web site: Grace O'Sullivan . ElectionsIreland.org . 2 March 2020 . 17 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200717190006/https://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=10364 . live .
28. . Retrieved 2 March 2020.
29. Web site: Maria Walsh . ElectionsIreland.org . 2 March 2020 . 11 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210711230939/https://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=11200 . live .