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In the general election of 2002 it made a breakthrough, getting 6 TDs (Members of Parliament) elected to the Dáil. However, in the election to the European Parliament of June 2004, the party lost both of the European Parliament seats which it had won in the previous election in 1999.
The Irish Green Party's best-known politicians are leader Trevor Sargent and former MEP Patricia McKenna .
The Green Party has strong links with its counterpart in Northern Ireland, the Green Party in Northern Ireland, but it has had little success at any level of election in the North. Although it is a member of the European Federation of Green Parties, The Irish Green Party has adopted a notably more eurosceptic stance than is typical of Green Parties in other European UnionFor other uses, see EU (disambiguation). The European Union or EU is a supranational organisation of 25 European states. It was established with that name by the Treaty on European Union (commonly known as the Maastricht Treaty) in 1992 but many aspects o countries.
See also: Worldwide green partiesThis article is about the green parties around the world . It describes differences between green parties in a broader sense and "Green Parties" in a narrower sense. Formally organized political parties (and political movements) based on the Four Pillars