Archive for the category: ‘Blog’

May 15th, 2013

CAP payments vital

Last year was a difficult year for Irish farming, with farm incomes down 15 per cent, according to Teagasc’s latest [...]

May 15th, 2013

Alcohol-Related Harm

We are all too aware of the harmful effects of hazardous alcohol consumption.
Many people have tragically lost their lives on [...]

May 14th, 2013

EU Youth Funding

Youth sector workers or those involved with educational programmes that are interested in learning more about EU funding opportunities, can [...]

May 7th, 2013

Europe Day

Thursday, May 9th is Europe Day, commemorating the Schuman Declaration which was presented by the French Foreign Minister, Robert Schuman, [...]

May 6th, 2013

Funds for rural Ireland

May 6th, 2013 Rural Ireland is experiencing a very serious shortage of fodder after an extremely long winter and spring. [...]

April 24th, 2013

Women in Politics

Fine Gael introduced legislation to ensure all political parties seek to increase the number of women in politics.
30% of all [...]

April 23rd, 2013

Darkness into Light

The ‘Darkness into Light’ annual fundraising initiative run by Pieta House, the network of suicide and self-harm crisis centres, takes [...]

April 4th, 2013

Youth in Action

04 April 2013  Youth clubs across Ireland provide a wonderful service to our next generation by creating a safe, responsible [...]

March 19th, 2013

Celebrating St. Patrick

March 19th, 2013
March 19th and the European Parliament turned green as we joined with fellow Irish MEPs and colleagues and [...]

March 13th, 2013

Agri-food issues dominate

March 13th, 2013 Agricultural and food issues have dominated this week’s plenary session in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Yesterday morning, [...]

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