The Independent MEP Marian Harkin is calling for the Government needs to plan properly and extensively for a British exit from the EU within the next couple of years. Ms Harkin is proposing that Ireland secures an agreement that would enable it to trade with Britain for an interim period before any tariffs would be imposed. And she says it’s imperative the government negotiates a proper deal on a range of issues from border controls to securing alternative markets for Irish industries currently exporting to the UK.  

Out words: diversify anyway

Dur: 00:40 

The Sinn Fein MEP Lynn Boylan says she’s very concerned about the mental condition of Ibrahim Halawa, the young Irishman imprisoned in Egypt since August 2013. The 20 year old saw his trial postponedfor the 15^th (fifteenth) time on October 2. His case has been adjourned until November 12. He was arrested in Cairo in 2013 after Egyptian authorities claimed he took part in violent protests in a mosque there. The young man could face a death penalty if he is convicted. Lynn Boylan says Mr Halawa is now refusing to see visitors and that his hopes of a resolution to his on-going incarceration are fading.

Out words: 12^th November

Dur: 0.21

The United Nation’s Secretary General
called on the European Parliament this morning to ratify the Paris Climate
Change agreement known as COP21. MEPs today approved the climate
deal with an overwhelming majority of 610 MEPs backing it. The Paris Climate
Change Agreement, which was reached in Paris last December, aims to limit the
most dangerous impact of climate change by keeping global warming to well below
2 degrees Celsius. During his
address to the Parliament prior to the vote, Mr Ban Ki-Moon pleaded with MEPs
to give the green light to the Agreement for the betterment of the planet.  

Out words: healthy planet

Dur: 00:37