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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 .
Sinn Féin is the largest Irish republican political party, and was historically associated with the Irish Republican Army, while also having been associated with the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the party's modern incarnation. The Irish government alleged that senior members of Sinn Féin have held posts on the IRA Army Council.
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 party dominated Irish political life for most of the 20th century, and, since its foundation, either it or Fine Gael has led every government. Between 1932 and 2011, it was the largest party in Dáil Éireann , but latterly with a decline in its vote share; from 1989 onwards, its periods of government were in coalition with parties of ...
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 ...
This is a list of the members of the European Parliament for Ireland elected at the 2019 European Parliament election. They serve in the 2019 to 2024 session , but two of them did not take their seats until the reallocation of seats which took place when the MEPs elected for the United Kingdom vacated their seats on the implementation of Brexit ...
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.