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Sinn Féin MEP, Matt Carthy, has called on Minister Creed and Meat Industry Ireland to engage urgently with farm organisations to resolve the critical situation that beef farmers are in.  Carthy made his remarks as nationwide protests by the Beef

Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy has described attacks on him by Fianna Fáil EU candidate Brendan Smith as pathetic and said they smack of desperation. Matt Carthy said: “Brendan Smith has issued a pathetic attack on me that smacks of desperation due to the fact that his own campaign

Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy has outlined his party’s record of delivering for Ireland in Europe with respect to the challenges presented by Brexit since 2016. The Midlands North West representative said: “Sinn Féin MEPs have played a crucial role

Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy has slammed the government for squandering of billions on euro on the National Broadband Plan, and labelled Fianna Fáil as being “complicit” in the debacle. Carthy, EU candidate for Midlands North West, said: “This government’s

Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy has said that a vote for Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil in the European elections is a vote for vulture funds which will worsen the current housing crisis. The Midlands North West candidate said that stopping

The government’s policy of allowing bailed-out banks to pay no corporation tax on their profits is “shockingly unfair” and must change, Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy has said.   The Midlands North-West MEP said the 2018 profits reported by Allied

Sinn Féin MEP for Midlands North West, Matt Carthy, will address a public meeting on ‘Tackling the Housing Crisis’ in Clane, Co Kildare, this Thursday evening where he will outline, among other issues, his party’s proposals to end the ‘free

Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy has commented on the “celebrations” of the 20th anniversary of the euro currency in Strasbourg this week.   Carthy, a member of the Economic and Monetary Affairs committee, said: “The euro has resulted in very

Sinn Féin MEP for the Midlands North West, Matt Carthy, has welcomed the adoption of a Regulation dividing agricultural tariff concessions post-Brexit. Speaking following the adoption of the Report in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Carthy said:   “Consolation in Brexit terms

Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy has called for a European-wide campaign to block the Commission’s proposal for a Directive on developing a secondary market for non-performing loans.   Addressing MEPs and ECB President Mario Draghi in the plenary session of