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Simon Harris (born 17 October 1986) is an Irish Fine Gael politician serving as Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and Minister for Defence since January 2025, having previously served as Taoiseach from 2024 to 2025. He has been leader of Fine Gael since 2024 and a TD for the Wicklow constituency since 2011.
The 2024 Fine Gael leadership election followed the resignation of Leo Varadkar as party leader on 20 March 2024. [1] [2] [3] As the only candidate nominated, Simon Harris, the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, was deemed elected as party leader on 24 March 2024.
The recently appointed Fine Gael leader replaces Leo Varadkar as premier.
The most recent devolved cabinet in Northern Ireland is the Northern Ireland Executive, established under the Good Friday Agreement. The Executive has been in operation, intermittently, since 1999; but had existed continuously since 2007, but after elections following a government collapsed on 16 January 2017, no Executive was formed until ...
At 37, Harris is now set to be Ireland’s youngest Taoiseach, beating the record set by Varadkar, who was 38 when he assumed the role. Harris is expected to be installed by the Irish Parliament ...
After a whirlwind ascent to the top of Irish politics, Simon Harris has little time and few levers to pull to secure a fourth term for his weary centre-right Fine Gael party and prevent a first ...
On 24 March, Simon Harris was elected unopposed in the 2024 Fine Gael leadership election. [116] On 8 April, Varadkar submitted his resignation to President Higgins. [6] The Dáil nomination for Taoiseach was held on 9 April, leading to the appointment of Harris as the new Taoiseach by President Michael D. Higgins.
Simon Harris has become the youngest-ever prime minister of Ireland, officially taking office in Dublin on Tuesday after Leo Varadkar suddenly stepped down last month.. Harris, 37, ran unopposed ...