Sean Kelly MEP has challenged every Member of the European Parliament to help set up a CoderDojo computer coding club in their constituency. The Ireland South MEP set the challenge while hosting a special CoderDojo MEP teaching workshop in the Parliament today (Tuesday). Marking ‘EU Code Week’, the CoderDojo event involved youngsters from Ireland, Italy, […]

Sean Kelly MEP will ask the new European Commission to consider funding innovative initiatives such as ‘CoderDojo’, which was co-founded in Cork by James Whelton and Bill Liao, through the EU’s Erasmus+ funding which covers education and training for youth. Coder Dojo provides an informal, fun setting for children and young people to learn how […]

Fine Gael MEPs Sean Kelly, Mairead McGuinness and Deirdre Clune have today (Friday) concluded a successful day of meetings with community groups and politicians to support EU funding programmes in Northern Ireland.

“I am delighted to confirm that the European Parliament’s European Globalisation Fund (EGF) working group this morning approved EU funding support for 276 jewellery workers and unemployed young people in Rathkeale, Co. Limerick”, Sean Kelly MEP said in Brussels today (Thursday).

Sean Kelly, the Leader of the Fine Gael delegation in the European Parliament, has congratulated Ireland’s Commissioner-designate Phil Hogan on an “excellent” hearing at the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee today (Thursday).