‘This story has been created that we’ve gone to Europe and gone mad’ – Mick Wallace and Clare Daly
Defiant, humorous and articulate, MEPs Mick Wallace and Clare Daly are a unique political double act. In this interview, they defend their controversial foreign policy positions which have made them increasingly polarising figures in the European Parliament, and turn the spotlight instead on their critics
As a scandal involving alleged bribery by Qatari interests struck at the integrity of the European Parliament last week, Mick Wallace and Clare Daly couldn’t help but laugh.
Tickled by what the two Irish MEPs perceived as the irony of allegations levelled at them – that they had been aligning their political work with the interests of foreign regimes – the pair poked fun at their critics.
“Everybody is paying us except Qatar,” Wallace joked as the duo sat down for an interview with the Business Post at their European Parliament offices in Strasbourg.
