Meet Your Candidates: EU Elections Hustings
Meet Your Candidates: EU Elections Hustings
Join us online on 3 May to meet Ireland’s candidates for the 2024 European elections.
On 7 June, citizens have the opportunity to vote and have a direct impact on the democratic governance of the European Union while ensuring that diverse and underrepresented voices are heard.
At our hustings, you’ll have the chance to learn more about your MEP candidates and how they will support the community and voluntary sector if elected. The Wheel will present our EU Elections manifesto outlining our members’ priorities for the sector so the candidates can respond to these asks. There will also be a Q&A session, so audience members have the opportunity to raise their communities’ priorities.
Come along and make your voice heard!
This event is brought to you by Access Europe, a programme funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs.
This event will be held on Zoom. Please register below. Meeting details will be sent to you after registration.
Meet Your Facilitator
COLETTE BENNETT is The Wheel's Director of Advocacy and Research. Collette has spent the past 14 years working at a senior level in justice advocacy and organisational development. She has a Masters in Social Justice and Public Policy and is a qualified solicitor with a professional certificate from the Law Society of Ireland. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences Committee. Colette has provided guest lectures for Trinity College Dublin, DCU, ATU and SETU; seminar inputs; and training on a range of social policy areas including the Budget, poverty in Ireland, housing, the Global South, the SDGs and public participation.
Candidates
Ciarán Cuffe
Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, Green Party, Dublin
Sinéad Gibney
EU Political Group TBD, Social Democrats, Dublin
Brian O’Boyle
The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL, People Before Profit, Midlands-North-West
Aodhán O'Riordáin
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, Labour Party, Dublin
More candidates to be announced shortly
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