Brian Crowley

Brian Crowley is an Irish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the South constituency. He sits as an independent MEP after he was expelled from the Fianna Fil parliamentary party in June 2014, when he left the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament and joined the European Conservatives and Reformists . He is a wheelchairuser as a result of an accident he suffered at age 16.

Crowley was born in Dublin in 1964, but was raised in Bandon, County Cork, where he attended Hamilton High School. He received a diploma in law in 1993 from University College Cork, and the following year he was nominated by the Taoiseach Albert Reynolds to the 20th Seanad ireann. At the 1994 European Parliament election he was elected to the European Parliament for the Munster constituency. He has retained his seat at the three subsequent elections. He was a member of Irelands Council of State from 1997 to 2004.

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