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The Green Party Northern Ireland voted in 2005 to become a region of the Irish Green Party, making it the second party to be organised on an all-Ireland basis. It has Northern Ireland members on the Irish Green Party national executive. In June 2007, the Green Party entered coalition government with Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats.
Ireland is a parliamentary, representative democratic republic and a member state of the European Union. While the head of state is the popularly elected President of Ireland, it is a largely ceremonial position, with real political power being vested in the Taoiseach, who is nominated by the Dáil and is the head of the government .
The Constitution of Ireland vests executive authority in the Government of Ireland ( Irish: Rialtas na hÉireann ), which is headed by the Taoiseach, the head of government. The government – also known as the cabinet – is composed of ministers, each of whom must be a member of the Oireachtas, which consists of Dáil Éireann and Seanad ...
The 2020 Irish general election took place on Saturday 8 February, to elect the 33rd Dáil, the lower house of Ireland 's parliament. The election was called following the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil by the president, at the request of the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, on 14 January 2020. The members, Teachtaí Dála (TDs), were elected by single ...
The current government is a coalition of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party. Traditionally, the Labour Party was the third party, although since 2016 it has been surpassed by Sinn Féin, and since 2020 by the Green Party. Smaller parties and independents exist in the Dáil and more so in local government.
The Oireachtas (/ ˈ ɛr ə k t ə s / EH-rək-təs, Irish: [ˈɛɾʲaxt̪ˠəsˠ]), sometimes referred to as Oireachtas Éireann, is the bicameral parliament of Ireland. The Oireachtas consists of the president of Ireland and the two houses of the Oireachtas (Irish: Tithe an Oireachtais), a house of representatives called Dáil Éireann and a senate called Seanad Éireann.
Thomas Murray (2015) "Socio-Economic Rights and the Making of the 1937 Irish Constitution", Irish Political Studies,Vol 31 (4), pp. 502–524. DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2015.1095738; Micheál Ó Cearúil, Bunreacht na hÉireann: A Study of the Irish Text (published by the All Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution, The Stationery Office, 1999).
The Green Party ( Irish: Comhaontas Glas, lit. 'Green Alliance') is a green [3] political party that operates in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It holds a pro-European stance. [5] It was founded as the Ecology Party of Ireland in 1981 by Dublin teacher Christopher Fettes.