PM Modi congratulates newly elected Irish PM Micheal Martin Martin is one of the longest serving MPs in the Dail (lower house of Irish Parliament) having been first elected in 1989. PTI ...

Micheal Martin was appointed Ireland's new prime minister on Thursday after lawmakers belatedly backed him following a bitter row over parliamentary speaking rules that had delayed the vote.

Politics, at its core, is all about survival. And few can argue that Micheál Martin is anything other than a survivor. The Fianna Fáil leader has become Taoiseach for the second time in his ...

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 ...

Micheal Martin has said he is “thankful” to his supporters after he received the backing of the Irish parliament to be nominated as the country’s next premier. Parliamentarians voted 95 to ...

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Members of 34th Dáil are set to nominate Micheál Martin as Taoiseach, this Wednesday morning, when they meet for the first time this year. The Dáil will sit from 11am and the nomination process ...

A new Government will be formed later today, with Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin making his return as Taoiseach by lunchtime. TDs are due to gather in the Dáil chamber from 10.30am, before ...

Micheál Martin is poised to become Ireland’s next taoiseach, as the Dáil meets to nominate a new head of government on Wednesday. Mr Martin’s Fianna Fáil emerged as the largest party ...

At Fianna Fáil’s weekend mini-ard fheis, the atmosphere was euphoric, the mood nostalgic. Just like old times. Here was the man, once predicted to be the first Fianna Fáil leader never to be ...

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Micheal Martin will be Taoiseach for the first three years of the new government with Simon Harris taking the final two years. The cabinet is set to be appointed too - but it hasn't happened today.