News - Ciaran Mullooly MEP

Independent Ireland's Ciaran Mullooly has been speaking as the entire country is currently under a wind warning until tonight.

It's after local MEP Ciaran Mullooly confirmed Bord na Móna is due to start rewetting bogs in Mouth Dillon and Erenagh on Thursday.

A middle-man brokered a deal between the council and protestors in Ballaghaderreen - with 15 car-parking spaces being kept at The Square.

The EU Commissioner for crisis management told MEP Ciaran Mullooly her department was not contacted by the Irish Government until Saturday.

The group is set to sell off its waste management business in Tullamore in a deal which is expected to be worth more than €55m.

He outlined the issues the European Parliament and Agri Committee will be addressing in the coming months.

That's despite the majority of Irish MEPs opting to vote against her, with many opposed to her position on Gaza.

Castlerea's Luke 'Ming' Flanagan has confirmed he will vote against her, along with Fianna Fáil's Barry Cowen, over her support of Israel.

The Ballyleague/Lanesboro man was elected to the European Parliament last month for Independent Ireland, which includes TD Michael Fitzmaurice.

It was over his Independent Ireland party joining the Renew Group in the European Parliament, as opposed to the European Conservatives and Reformists.

Mullooly alongside Independent MEP Michael McNamara and the four Fianna Fáil MEP's are the Irish representatives in the group.