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👋🏻 I'm CIARAN MULLOOLY
Independent Ireland
● Full Member of Industry, Regional Development
(REGI)
● Substitute Member of Agriculture & Rural
Development
● Change for Europe :
A genuine transnational democracy.
● Key achievements :
A more transparent and accountable political advertising in Europe.
Deputy Secretary General of EDP
From 2004 to 2010
Member of the European Parliament for France
Since 2020
Secretary General of EDP
Since 2021
About me
Ciaran Mullooly, 55, was until 2021 a journalist at RTE, the Irish public service broadcaster, where he was the RTÉ News Midlands correspondent for 26 years. Retired, he devoted himself to EU social inclusion programmes, promoting local tourism and then accepted the candidature focusing his campaign on the issues of a just ecological transition, socially sustainable migration and strong support for small and medium-sized enterprises. ‘I would have always said I was a centrist,’ he said in an interview in early June.
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