Two Additional European Parliament Seats Proposed for Ireland Should Be Allocated to the North - Ni Riada

A Sinn Fein MEP believes the 2 additional European Parliament seats Ireland will gain after Brexit, should be allocated to the North. 

The European Parliament is today voting on proposals on re-distributing the number of seats after the UK leaves the European Union. 

Overall the number of MEPs is being cut from 751 to 705. 

46 of the 73 UK seats will be put in a reserve while the other 27 are being redistributed to 14 countries under-represented at present. 

Ireland South MEP, Liadh Ni Riada, says allocating the extra Irish seats to the North would be a practical solution: 

 

Out words:   for everybody