• issues. When Fine Gael was in opposition, the front bench areas of responsibility broadly corresponded to those of Government ministers. Fine Gael has been...
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    Law Reform, by the new leader, Enda Kenny. He was sacked from the Fine Gael front bench in 2004, for smoking tobacco in the members bar at Leinster House...
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    The 2024 Fine Gael leadership election followed the resignation of Leo Varadkar as party leader on 20 March 2024. As the only candidate nominated, Simon...
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    The Leader of Fine Gael is the most senior politician within the Fine Gael political party in Ireland. Since 24 March 2024, the office has been held by...
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    Young Fine Gael (YFG) is the autonomous youth wing of Fine Gael, one of Ireland’s major centre-right political parties. It offers its members scope to...
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    Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny appointed Noonan to his front bench in 2010, to his former portfolio of Spokesperson...
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  • Fine Gael (/ˌfiːnə ˈɡeɪl, ˌfɪn-/, Irish: [ˌfʲɪnʲə ˈɡeːl̪ˠ]; English: "Family (or Tribe) of the Irish") is a political party in Ireland, formed in 1933...
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    January Michael Noonan and Jim Mitchell, two senior members of the Fine Gael front bench, tabled a motion of no confidence in Bruton as leader of the party...
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    united front. The Fine Gael party was poorly organised in Dublin, and morale was low. The political landscape had changed in Ireland since Fine Gael's heyday...
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  • parties occupy the front benches on the opposition side: Sinn Féin Front Bench Labour Party Front Bench Social Democrats Front Bench Solidarity–People...
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  • government departments by the incoming Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition. In May 2016 Martin announced his third front bench. Fianna Fáil is the largest opposition...
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  • Fine Gael (/ˌfiːnə ˈɡeɪl, ˌfɪn-/ FEEN-nə GAYL, FIN-, Irish: [ˌfʲɪnʲə ˈɡeːl̪ˠ]; English: "Family (or Tribe) of the Irish") is a liberal-conservative and...
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  • Dáil Fine Gael Front Bench Fianna Fáil Front Bench Green Party Front Bench Opposition Front Bench Sinn Féin Front Bench Labour Party Front Bench Technical...
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  • Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Aengus Ó Snodaigh who will be in attendance at front bench meetings. On 7 July 2020, Sinn Féin announced the appointments of the...
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  • in Northern Ireland). Fianna Fáil Front Bench Fine Gael Front Bench Labour Party Front Bench Sinn Féin Front Bench "Representatives - Green Party". Green...
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    – 10 February 1986) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of Fine Gael from 1959 to 1965 and Minister for...
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    The 2002 Fine Gael leadership election began in May 2002, when Michael Noonan resigned as party leader due to the party's poor performance in the 2002...
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    Michael Ring (category Fine Gael TDs)
    appointed to the Fine Gael Front Bench in 2002, as Spokesperson on Social and Family Affairs. Ring stepped down from the Front Bench in 2004, after an...
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  • accordingly, their front bench areas of responsibility broadly correspond to those of Government ministers. The current front bench was announced on 21...
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  • Councillors. Fianna Fáil Front Bench Fine Gael Front Bench Green Party Front Bench Sinn Féin Front Bench Social Democrats Front Bench (Ireland) Finn, Christina...
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    Richard Bruton (category Fine Gael TDs)
    Richard Bruton (born 15 March 1953) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin Bay North since 2016, and previously...
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  • Paul Connaughton Snr (category Fine Gael TDs)
    He was Fine Gael front bench Spokesperson on Marine, Natural Resources and Energy from June 2000 to February 2001. In Enda Kenny's Front Bench reshuffle...
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  • 2017 Fine Gael leadership election was triggered in May 2017, when Enda Kenny resigned as leader of Fine Gael. Voting began by members of Fine Gael and...
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    Mary Banotti (category Fine Gael MEPs)
    Elizabeth Banotti (née O'Mahony; 29 May 1939 – 10 May 2024) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for...
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  • The Fine Gael leadership election of November 1990 was held to find a successor to Alan Dukes who resigned following a collapse in the party's support...
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    The Fine Gael leadership election of March 1987 was held to find a successor to Garret FitzGerald who resigned following the party's defeat in that year's...
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    Leo Varadkar (category Fine Gael TDs)
    Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 2017 to 2020 and from 2022 to 2024, as Tánaiste from 2020 to 2022, and as leader of Fine Gael from...
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    Deirdre Clune (category Fine Gael MEPs)
    third generation member of the Dáil. In the Dáil, she was appointed Fine Gael front bench spokesperson on Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands in June...
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    Frances Fitzgerald (politician) (category Fine Gael TDs)
    the Fine Gael group in Seanad Éireann, and was also Fine Gael Seanad Spokesperson on Health and Children, and a member of the Fine Gael Front Bench. She...
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    Maria Walsh (politician) (category Fine Gael MEPs)
    Midlands–North-West constituency since July 2019. She is a member of Fine Gael, part of the European People's Party. Outside of politics, she is known...
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