Nuala Ahern
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Nuala Ahern (born 5 February 1949) is a former Irish Green Party member of the European Parliament representing Leinster, on the east coast of Ireland, from 1994-2004. Nuala became active in politics in 1991 becoming elected to Wicklow County Council. Nuala later joined the Green Party in 1989.
Her involvement in politics began through community action in Wicklow to prevent sewage pollution into the Irish Sea. She is also a long-term anti-nuclear campaigner, promoting instead the use of Renewable energy. Nuala grew up in the Cooley peninsula of North Louth which is very close to the plutonium reprocessing plant in Sellafield on the West coast of the UK She has campaigned against the construction of a nuclear power plant in Carnsore Point, Co. Wexford in the late 1970s and for the closure of Sellafield which still operates today. Nuala has also campaigned against the use of genetically modified food stating concerns of inadequate scientific knowledge.
In Europe Nuala was vice-President of the European Parliament's Petitions Committee and a Vice-President of the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research & Energy. She was also a member of the Culture Committee and Legal Affairs Committee. She also was President of the European Parliament Intergroup on Complementary and Natural Medicine.
Nuala is a founder member of the Irish Women's Environment Network and the Wicklow Greens.
