“We urge the Egyptian authorities to free Ibrahim Halawa,” Seán Kelly MEP said, on behalf of the four Fine Gael MEPs who have welcomed today’s adoption of a European Parliament Resolution calling for the release of the Irish citizen who has been imprisoned in Egypt since 2013.

Seán Kelly MEP has welcomed the final text for a new EU-wide law on data protection, as finalised today (Wednesday). The Ireland South MEP has been a key negotiator for the EPP Group on the highly-anticipated European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Seán Kelly MEP will this week table a European Parliament Motion for Resolution calling for the release of Ibrahim Halawa, an Irish citizen who is being held in an Egyptian jail.

“Ireland will benefit from the historic climate change agreement which is almost certain to be agreed in Paris this evening (Saturday) and we should embrace it”, Seán Kelly MEP, the only Irish MEP of the European Parliament’s negotiating team at the UN’s Global Climate Change Conference said in Paris as the final deal was presented […]

“Ireland will be one of the hardest-hit countries in Europe and suffer more coastal and river flooding incidents in future, if a deal to limit global warming is not achieved in Paris,” said Seán Kelly MEP, a member of the European Parliament’s negotiating team at the UN’s Global Climate Change Conference in Paris this evening […]