Ireland’s house prices are the second fastest-growing in the EU, according to Seán Kelly MEP. New data released by Eurostat on Wednesday showed that the highest annual increases in house prices in the second quarter of 2017 compared with the second quarter of 2016 were recorded in Czech Republic (+13.3%), Ireland (+10.6%) and Lithuania (+10.2%), […]

Excessive charges on so-called “Intra-EU” phone calls, or the tariffs applied to fixed and mobile calls from one EU Member State to another, may come to an end according to Seán Kelly MEP. The Leader of the Fine Gael Delegation in the European Parliament welcomed the passing of the new EU Electronic Communications Code through […]

Seán Kelly MEP and Leader of the Fine Gael Delegation in the European Parliament has paid tribute to former Taoiseach and former Fine Gael Leader Liam Cosgrave, who passed away yesterday aged 97 years.

The four Fine Gael MEPs are calling for less grandstanding and more engagement by the UK in the ongoing Brexit negotiations. Seán Kelly, Mairead McGuinness, Brian Hayes and Deirdre Clune made the call following today’s adoption of a European Parliament Resolution which concluded that insufficient progress has been made in the talks so far.

MEP for Ireland South and leader of Fine Gael in the European Parliament, Seán Kelly, has welcomed new statistics from Eurostat which show that unemployment continued to fall impressively in Ireland over the past 12 months. Irish unemployment was 6.3% in in August 2017, down from 7.9% at the same time last year.