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The Taoiseach (/ ˈ t iː ʃ ə x / ⓘ) [d] is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland. [a] The office is appointed by the President of Ireland upon nomination by Dáil Éireann (the lower house of the Oireachtas, Ireland's national legislature) and the office-holder must retain the support of a majority in the Dáil to remain in office.
The head of government, or prime minister, of Ireland is known as the Taoiseach and heads a cabinet called the Government. However, since 1919, heads of government in the Irish state have borne a number of titles.
Micheál Martin (Irish: [ˈmʲiːçaːl̪ˠ]; [2] [3] [4] born 1 August 1960) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician serving as Taoiseach since January 2025, having previously held the position from 2020 to 2022.
Fianna Fail leader Micheál Martin has been elected taoiseach (Irish prime minister) for the second time after chaos in the Dáil (lower house of Irish Parliament) subsided. The Dáil was ...
Leo Varadkar announced on Wednesday he was stepping down as Ireland's prime minister in a surprise move, saying the country's coalition government would stand a better chance of reelection under ...
Harris, the outgoing taoiseach, assumed the role of deputy prime minister Thursday, and will expect to step back into the role of Ireland’s leader again in 2027. For more CNN news and ...
Varadkar alongside Jüri Ratas, the Prime Minister of Estonia, and Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, in 2017 Varadkar, alongside his party Fine Gael, universally opposed Brexit , and much of his time during his first tenure as Taoiseach was spent in negotiations with the British government over how the shared border between the ...
Their arrangement meant that the position of Irish prime minister, the taoiseach, was swapped halfway through the term. Mr Martin held the role until December 2022, when Leo Varadkar took over.