Editor: last update 24 September 1998; Europe; index

Irish Green Party/Comhaontas Glas

'Comhaontas Glas' is Irish for Green Union. The pronunciation is as 'quaintas glas'.

Comhaontas Glas has a web-site. The email address is greenpar@iol.ie. An Caorthann is an associated periodical, published occasionally, both as a web hypertext and in hard copy.

The party has 2 MEPs: Patricia McKenna and Nuala Ahern; since the 1997 election there are 2 TDs (members of the Dail or National Assembly): Trevor Sargent and John Gormley. The latter was Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1994-5.

The election results for the Greens are:

18-6-1989 European Parliament: 3,8% 0/15 seats

xx-x-1992 National Parliament: 1,4% 1/166 seats

12-6-1995 European Parliament: 90.046 votes 7,92% 2/15 seats

6-6-1997 National Parliament: 2.4% of votes overall; 2/166 seats; for detail see web-site.

There was a national convention of the party on August 30-31 1997, which adopted a new Constitution, on which work had been going on since December 1995. This is also accessible for reference on the web-site.