Martin says Northern Ireland should still have MEPs after Brexit
‘Why would people object to Northern Ireland continuing to have representation ?’
Micheál Martin has proposed that even after the UK quits the European Union that Northern Ireland should continue to have representation in the European Parliament. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
The Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has proposed that even after the UK quits the European Union that Northern Ireland should continue to have representation in the European Parliament.
Mr Martin referred to how tens of thousands of people from Northern Ireland hold Irish passports and therefore were “Irish citizens” and “European citizens”.