{"id":304351,"date":"2026-02-18T14:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304351\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:13:07","slug":"all-five-ireland-south-meps-to-address-seanad-eireann-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304351\/","title":{"rendered":"All five Ireland South MEPs to address Seanad \u00c9ireann today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All five Ireland South MEPs will address Seanad \u00c9ireann this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time all elected MEPs from the constituency will be present in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/seanad-eireann\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seanad chamber<\/a> since the election in June 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Fine Gael\u2019s Sean Kelly, Fianna F\u00e1il\u2019s Billy Kelleher and Cynthia N\u00ed Mhurch\u00fa, Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Kathleen Funchion and Independent Michael McNamara will discuss several topics with Senators.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will also cover the general theme of Ireland\u2019s upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/council-eu\/presidency-council-eu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Presidency of the European Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cathaoirleach of the Seanad, Kenmare native Senator Mark Daly says this meeting and engagement with the EU is more important than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All five Ireland South MEPs will address Seanad \u00c9ireann this afternoon. It\u2019s the first time all elected MEPs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,143623,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-304351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-meps-to-address-seanad","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}