Deirdre Clune

Deirdre Clune (née Barry; born 1 June 1959) is an Irish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the South constituency from 2014 to 2019, and again from 2020 to 2024.

She is a member of Fine Gael, part of the European People's Party.

Her grandfather Anthony Barry had also been a TD, making her a third generation member of the Dáil.

[3] She lost her seat at the 2011 general election to party colleague Jerry Buttimer.

On 15 November 2023, Clune announced that she would not contest the 2024 European Parliament election[6]

Clune in 2014