Catherine Day

this for a six-month period and it should be noted that ireland in particular one of the early member states of the european community has made a considerable contribution to the european project over many years and you can hear many irish voices across the eu institutions we have indeed seamus boland who was most recently elected president of the european economic and social committee We've Tony Murphy, who is president of the European Court of Auditors.

You'll remember perhaps Catherine Day, who's a former secretary general of the European Commission.

We had Pat Cox, who was previously president of the European Parliament.

We have, of course, other players in terms of David O'Sullivan, who is currently working on sanctions.