# List of female members of the European Parliament for Ireland

Members of the European Parliament for Ireland :
| 1st delegation | (1973) |
| 2nd delegation | (1973–1977) |
| 3rd delegation | (1977–1979) |
| 1st term | (1979) |
| 2nd term | (1984) |
| 3rd term | (1989) |
| 4th term | (1994) |
| 5th term | (1999) |
| 6th term | (2004) |
| 7th term | (2009) |
| 8th term | (2014) |
| 9th term | (2019) |
| 10th term | (2024) |
Women :
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This is a list of women who have served as members of the European Parliament for Ireland.

## List

| Name | Constituency | National party | EP group | Term start | Term end |
| Eileen Desmond | Munster | Labour | PES | 1979 | 1981 |
| Síle de Valera | Dublin | Fianna Fáil | EPD | 1979 | 1984 |
| Mary Banotti | Dublin | Fine Gael | EPP | 1984 | 2004 |
| Eileen Lemass | Dublin | Fianna Fáil | EDA | 1984 | 1989 |
| Nuala Ahern | Leinster | Green | G | 1994 | 1999 |
| Nuala Ahern | Leinster | Green | Greens/EFA | 1999 | 2004 |
| Bernie Malone | Dublin | Labour | PES | 1994 | 1999 |
| Patricia McKenna | Dublin | Green | G | 1994 | 1999 |
| Patricia McKenna | Dublin | Green | Greens/EFA | 1999 | 2004 |
| Avril Doyle | Leinster | Fine Gael | EPP–ED | 1999 | 2009 |
| Dana Rosemary Scallon | Connacht–Ulster | Independent | EPP–ED | 1999 | 2004 |
| Marian Harkin | North-West | Independent | ALDE | 2004 | 2014 |
| Marian Harkin | Midlands–North-West | Independent | ALDE | 2014 | 2019 |
| Mary Lou McDonald | Dublin | Sinn Féin | GUE/NGL | 2004 | 2009 |
| Mairead McGuinness | East | Fine Gael | EPP–ED | 2004 | 2014 |
| Mairead McGuinness | Midlands–North-West | Fine Gael | EPP–ED | 2014 | 2020 |
| Kathy Sinnott | South | Independent | IND/DEM | 2004 | 2009 |
| Nessa Childers | East | Labour | S&D | 2009 | 2013 |
| Nessa Childers | East | Independent | NI | 2013 | 2014 |
| Nessa Childers | Dublin | Independent | S&D | 2014 | 2019 |
| Phil Prendergast | South | Labour | S&D | 2011 | 2014 |
| Emer Costello | Dublin | Labour | S&D | 2012 | 2014 |
| Lynn Boylan | Dublin | Sinn Féin | GUE/NGL | 2014 | 2019 |
| Deirdre Clune | South | Fine Gael | EPP | 2014 | 2024 |
| Liadh Ní Riada | South | Sinn Féin | GUE/NGL | 2014 | 2019 |
| Frances Fitzgerald | Dublin | Fine Gael | EPP | 2019 | 2024 |
| Clare Daly | Dublin | Inds. 4 Change | GUE/NGL | 2019 | 2024 |
| Grace O'Sullivan | South | Green | Greens/EFA | 2019 | 2024 |
| Maria Walsh | Midlands–North-West | Fine Gael | EPP | 2019 | Incumbent |
| Lynn Boylan | Dublin | Sinn Féin | The Left | 2024 | Incumbent |
| Nina Carberry | Midlands–North-West | Fine Gael | EPP | 2024 | Incumbent |
| Regina Doherty | Dublin | Fine Gael | EPP | 2024 | Incumbent |
| Kathleen Funchion | South | Sinn Féin | The Left | 2024 | Incumbent |
| Cynthia Ní Mhurchú | South | Fianna Fáil | RE | 2024 | Incumbent |

## Footnotes

* ↑ Eileen Desmond resigned on 7 July 1981 and was substituted by Seán Treacy on 9 July 1981.
* ↑ Síle de Valera did not contest the 1984 election.
* 1 2 3 4 From 1999 to 2009, the European People's Party was known as the European People's Party–European Democrats.
* ↑ Mary Banotti did not contest the 2004 election.
* ↑ Eileen Lemass was defeated at the 1989 election.
* 1 2 Both the Irish Green MEPs (Nuala Ahern and Patricia McKenna) sat from 1994 to 1999 as members of The Green Group in the European Parliament. After the 1999 election, they joined the new European Greens–European Free Alliance, an alliance of greens and regionalists.
* ↑ Nuala Ahern did not contest the 2004 election.
* ↑ Bernie Malone did not contest the 1999 election.
* ↑ Patricia McKenna did not contest the 2004 election.
* ↑ Avril Doyle did not contest the 2009 election.
* ↑ The Connacht–Ulster constituency was abolished at the 2004 election. Dana Rosemary Scallon contested the new North-West constituency, where she was defeated.
* 1 2 The North-West constituency was abolished at the 2014 election, when Marian Harkin was elected for the new Midlands–North-West constituency.
* ↑ Marian Harkin did not contest the 2019 election.
* ↑ Mary Lou McDonald was defeated at the 2009 election.
* ↑ Kathy Sinnott was defeated at the 2009 election.
* ↑ Nessa Childers resigned from the parliamentary Labour Party in April 2013.
* ↑ Having left Labour, Nessa Childers sat as a Non-Inscrit until the 2014 election.
* 1 2 The East constituency was abolished at the 2014 election. Nessa Childers stood in the Dublin constituency, where she won a seat.
* ↑ Nessa Childers did not contest the 2019 election.
* ↑ Alan Kelly was substituted by Phil Prendergast, after he was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2011 general election.
* ↑ Phil Prendergast was defeated at the 2014 election.
* ↑ Proinsias De Rossa was substituted by Emer Costello, after he resigned from the European Parliament in February 2012.
* ↑ Emer Costello was defeated at the 2014 election.
* ↑ Lynn Boylan was defeated at the 2019 election.
* ↑ After the 2019 election, Clune did not re-take her seat until the reallocation of seats which took place when the MEPs elected for the United Kingdom vacated their seats on the implementation of Brexit on 31 January 2020.
* ↑ Deirdre Clune did not contest the 2024 election.
* ↑ Liadh Ní Riada was defeated at the 2019 election.
* ↑ Frances Fitzgerald did not contest the 2024 election.
* ↑ Clare Daly was defeated at the 2024 election.
* ↑ Grace O'Sullivan was defeated at the 2024 election.