{"id":80565,"date":"2025-10-14T19:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80565\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:45:08","slug":"highest-side-earning-mep-justifies-working-as-barrister-as-secondary-incomes-of-european-politicians-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80565\/","title":{"rendered":"Highest side-earning MEP justifies working as barrister as secondary incomes of European politicians revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">System is not equipped to deal with conflicts of interest, Transparency International says\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MEP Michael McNamara said he has only taken on one new case since the parliament sat  Photo: Tom Burke\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fdad5f02-892f-4204-8465-c4c0d0a5fbde.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">MEP Michael McNamara said he has only taken on one new case since the parliament sat  Photo: Tom Burke<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland\u2019s highest-earning MEP outside of politics has defended his right to also make money as a barrister<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Independent Michael McNamara earns a basic salary of \u20ac130,000 as an MEP, along with allowances, but has also declared annual outside income of \u20ac60,000 a year, and was included in a report by Transparency International.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"System is not equipped to deal with conflicts of interest, Transparency International says MEP Michael McNamara said he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2045,895,3775,61,60,6189,52466,43,52465,24036,2042,3415],"class_list":{"0":"post-80565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-billy-kelleher","9":"tag-fianna-fail","10":"tag-fine-gael","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-labour-party","14":"tag-maria-walsh","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nina-carberry","17":"tag-sean-kelly","18":"tag-senan-molony","19":"tag-sinn-fein"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80565","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=80565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}