Nessa Childers

Nessa Childers MEP
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office June 2009
Constituency	East
Personal details
Born	9 October 1956 (1956-10-09) (age 55) Dublin, Ireland
Nationality	Irish
Political party	Labour Party, (Formerly Green Party)
Alma mater	Trinity College, Dublin, University College Dublin
Website	nessachilders.ie

Nessa Maria Vereker Childers (born 9 October 1956) is an Irish Labour Party (S&D) politician who is currently a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East constituency.^[1]

She is a former councillor for the Green Party in Blackrock in south Dublin in Ireland. She was elected in 2004 and resigned from her seat in August 2008.^[2]

Childers originally joined the Labour Party before the 2004 local elections, but when she failed to get a nomination to run for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, she switched to the Green Party and was elected as a Green councillor.^[2]

In September 2008 she resigned from the Green Party to run for the Labour Party in the East constituency at the 2009 European Parliament election.^[3]

She has an Arts and Psychology degree from Trinity College, Dublin and a postgraduate diploma from University College Dublin. She previously worked as a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is the daughter of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine H. Childers and his second wife, Rita Childers.

Childers is a member of the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the delegation for relations with Japan. Furthermore, Childers is a substitute member of the Committee on Culture and Education.

See also

• Families in the Oireachtas

References

1. ^ "Your MEPs: Nessa Childers". European Parliament. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch/view.do?country=IE&partNumber=1&zone=East&language=EN&id=96603. Retrieved 10 December 2009. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Childers set to seek Labour nomination". The Irish Times. 7 October 2008. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1007/1223332518571.html. Retrieved 12 October 2008. 
3. ^ "Nessa Childers". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=5039. Retrieved 14 February 2010. 

External links

• Official website
• Nessa Childers' page on the Labour Party website

European Parliament
Preceded by Avril Doyle (Fine Gael / EPP)	Member of the European Parliament for East 2009–present	Incumbent

Persondata
Name	Childers, Nessa
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Short description
Date of birth	9 October 1956
Place of birth	Dublin, Ireland
Date of death
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