Nessa Maria Vereker Childers (born 9 October 1956) is an Irish former independent politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2019.

[4] Her paternal grandfather was Erskine Childers, a leading Irish republican and author of the espionage thriller The Riddle of the Sands.

[8] 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.

[9] In November 2011, she refused to support the Irish Government's nominee to the European Court of Auditors, Kevin Cardiff.

[12] Childers campaigned unsuccessfully to have former Fianna Fáil TD, Minister and European Commissioner Pádraig Flynn, stripped of his Commission pension after the Mahon Tribunal, which found him to have received corrupt payments.

In June 2013, she called upon Minister Phil Hogan to convene a commission to decide on new constituency boundaries.