Nessa Childers MEP | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office June 2009 |
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Constituency | East |
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Born | 9 October 1956 Dublin, Ireland |
Nationality | Irish |
Political party | Labour Party, (Formerly Green Party) |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin, University College Dublin |
Website | www.nessachilders.ie |
Nessa Maria Vereker Childers (born 9 October 1956) is an Irish Labour Party (S&D) politician who is currently a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East constituency.[1]
She is a former councillor for the Green Party in Blackrock in south Dublin in Ireland. She was elected in 2004 and resigned from her seat in August 2008.[2]
Childers originally joined the Labour Party before the 2004 local elections, but when she failed to get a nomination to run for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, she switched to the Green Party and was elected as a Green councillor.[2]
In September 2008 she resigned from the Green Party to run for the Labour Party in the East constituency at the 2009 European Parliament election.[3]
She has an Arts and Psychology degree from Trinity College, Dublin and a postgraduate diploma from University College Dublin. She previously worked as a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is the daughter of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine H. Childers and his second wife, Rita Childers.
Childers is a member of the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the delegation for relations with Japan. Furthermore, Childers is a substitute member of the Committee on Culture and Education.
European Parliament | ||
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Preceded by Avril Doyle (Fine Gael / EPP) |
Member of the European Parliament for East 2009–present |
Incumbent |
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