Three Fianna Fáil MEPs have voted AGAINST calls for a debt deal for Ireland.

They've rejected a proposal from Sinn Féin and Socialist MEPs explicitly calling for a deal on Ireland's legacy banking debts.

The proposal was put as an amendment to a report criticising the Troika for its role in the four Eurozone bailout countries.

The proposal would have demanded that the June 2012 deal to split banking and sovereign debt be applied "retrospectively in the case of Ireland".

The original wording - which was ultimately included in the final report - simply called on EU leaders "to further examine the situation of the Irish financial sector in a manner that substantially alleviates Ireland's heavy burden of bank debt".

MEPs Liam Aylward, Brian Crowley and Pat 'the Cope' Gallagher ALL voted against the amendment - the only members out of the 12 MEPs from the Republic to vote against. 

However the Fianna Fáil members say the original wording was included at their own behest - and that they had lobbied for broad support to make sure some pro-Ireland lines were included.

Pat 'The Cope' Gallagher says Fianna Fáil's call had more support than the 'hasty' amendment tabled for today: