Nessa Childers
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Nessa Childers MEP |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office May 2014 |
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| Constituency | Dublin |
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In office June 2009 – May 2014 |
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| Constituency | East |
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Nessa Maria Vereker Childers 9 October 1956 Castleknock, Dublin, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party |
 Irish:Independent  EU:S&D |
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Labour Party (?–2004, 2008–13) Green Party (2004–08) |
| Spouse(s) | Ross Skelton |
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| Website | www |
Nessa Maria Vereker Childers (born 9 October 1956) is an Irish politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009.
She is the daughter of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine H. Childers and his second wife, Rita Childers. Her paternal grandfather was Robert Erskine Childers, a leading Irish republican and author of the espionage thriller The Riddle of the Sands. She has an Arts and Psychology degree from Trinity College, Dublin and a postgraduate diploma from University College Dublin. During her time at Trinity she served as Registrar of the University Philosophical Society. She previously worked as a psychoanalyst in private practice.
She is a former councillor for the Green Party in Blackrock in south Dublin. She was elected in 2004 and resigned from her seat in August 2008.
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 to represent it as a councillor.
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. She was elected in May 2009.
Between 2009 and 2014 Childers was a member of the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the delegation for relations with Japan. She was also a substitute member of the Committee on Culture and Education.
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