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Fianna Fáil joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 16 April 2009, and has sat in its associated Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.
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Fianna and Fáil
Coalitions are typically formed of two or more parties always consisting of one of the two biggest parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, and one or more smaller parties or independent members of parliament.
Ireland has had consecutive coalition governments since the 1989 general election, excluding two brief Fianna Fáil minority administrations in 1994 and 2011 that followed the withdrawal of their coalition partners from government.
Before 1989, Fianna Fáil had opposed participation in coalition governments, preferring single-party minority government instead.
Irish coalition governments have traditionally been based on one of two large blocs in Dáil Éireann: either Fianna Fáil in coalition with smaller parties or independents, or Fine Gael and the Labour Party in coalition, sometimes with smaller parties.
The only exception to these traditional alliances was the first Government of the 27th Dáil, comprising Fianna Fáil and the Labour Party, which ruled between 1993 and 1994.
The Government of the 31st Dáil, though a traditional Fine Gael – Labour coalition, resembles a grand coalition, due to the collapse of Fianna Fáil to third place among parties in Dáil Éireann.
Canada, Ireland, and Portugal had right-wing political parties that defied categorization: the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ; Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and Progressive Democrats in Ireland ; and the Social Democratic Party of Portugal.
In the past Dublin city was regarded as a stronghold for Fianna Fáil, however following the Irish local elections, 2004 the party was eclipsed by the centre-left Labour Party.
* Dick Roche ( Fianna Fáil, Ireland )
* Máire Geoghegan-Quinn ( Fianna Fáil, Ireland ): European Commissioner for Science and Research
Fine Gael is generally considered to be more on the political right in comparison to its more centrist rival, Fianna Fáil, but Fine Gael has never governed Ireland without the Labour Party, a social-democratic party on the centre-left of Irish politics.
This strategy was criticised by Fianna Fáil Minister for Children, Barry Andrews.
At the 2009 Local elections held on 5 June 2009, Fine Gael won 556 seats, surpassing Fianna Fáil which won 407 seats, and making Fine Gael the largest party of local government nationally.
Lowry, currently an independent TD, supported the Fianna Fáil – Green Party government in Dáil Éireann until March 2011.
Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party, more commonly known as Fianna Fáil () is a centrist to centre-right Irish republican and conservative political party in Ireland, founded on 23 March 1926.
Historically, Fianna Fáil has been seen as to the left of Fine Gael and to the right of the Labour Party and is generally seen as a classic " catch all " populist party-representing a broad range of people from all social classes with the belief in the coincidence of economic growth and social progress.
Fianna Fáil has led governments including parties of the centre-left ( Labour and the Green Party ) and of the centre-right ( the now-defunct Progressive Democrats ) and is often seen as a pragmatic party of the establishment.
Since the formation of the first Fianna Fáil government on 9 March 1932, the party has been in power for 61 of the last 79 years.
Although the posts of leader and party president of Fianna Fáil are separate, with the former elected by the Parliamentary Party and the latter elected by the Ardfheis ( thus allowing for the posts to be held by different people, in theory ), in practice they have always been held by the one person.
The chart below shows a timeline of Fianna Fáil leaders and the Presidents of the Executive Council and Taoiseach.
The left bar shows all the leaders of Fianna Fáil, and the right bar shows the corresponding make-up of the Irish government at that time.
Fianna and joined
Fianna Fáil and the Green Party were joined by the Progressive Democrats in coalition and also enjoyed the support of a number of independent members of parliament.
While it looked as if Fianna Fáil were heading for a seventh consecutive victory all the other parties in the Dáil joined to form the first inter-party government in the history of the Irish state.
When WW2 broke out, the old IRA and old Fianna organisations marched as a body to Griffith Barracks in Dublin and they joined the Irish Army there as a separate battalion.
Several Fianna Fáil TDs joined including Mary Harney and Bobby Molloy.
He joined Fianna Fáil on its foundation in 1926 and was elected as a Fianna Fáil TD for the Kildare constituency at the June 1927 general election, only to lose that seat in the 1932 general election, which Fianna Fáil won.
O ' Malley joined with Fianna Fáil members Mary Harney, Bobby Molloy and Pearse Wyse, Fine Gael TD Michael Keating and former Fine Gael activist Michael McDowell, to set up the new party.
He was joined by Mary Harney ( like O ' Malley, an Independent TD expelled from Fianna Fáil ), and later by Fianna Fáil TDs Bobby Molloy and Pearse Wyse and Fine Gael TD Michael Keating.
O ' Kennedy joined Fianna Fáil in 1957 and became an active member of the party.
In 1953 Browne joined Fianna Fáil but lost his Dáil seat at the 1954 general election and was later expelled from the party.
His political career began with when he won a seat in the Kildare constituency at the 1977 general election which was a landslide for Charles Haughey's supporters in Fianna Fáil and he was re-elected at every subsequent election until he joined the Commission.
Following Fianna Fáil's return to government following the 1965 general election O ' Malley joined the cabinet as Minister for Health.
Woods joined Fianna Fáil in 1968.
Dempsey first became involved in politics in the early 1970s when he joined Ógra Fianna Fáil, the youth wing of the Fianna Fáil political party.
When Fianna Fáil returned to power with the Progressive Democrats following the 1997 general election O ' Donoghue joined the cabinet as Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform.
Volunteers fought for Irish independence in 1916's Easter Rising, and were joined by the Irish Citizen Army, Cumann na mBan and Fianna Éireann to form the Irish Republican Army.
Both MacDermot and Dillon later left Fine Gael, and both argued for Irish entry into World War II in the Allied side, but MacDermot joined Fianna Fáil while Dillon returned to Fine Gael and became party leader 1959-1965.
She joined Fianna Fáil on its foundation in 1926, chairing the inaugural meeting of the new party in La Scala Theatre.
However, on 27 July 2006, following the announcement that Independent Fianna Fáil TD Niall Blaney had joined the Fianna Fáil party, McDaid reversed this decision, and announced that he would be seeking nomination as a candidate to contest the 2007 general election.
In 1986 Molloy resigned from Fianna Fáil and joined the newly formed Progressive Democrats.
Fianna and European
Its member parties Fianna Fáil ( FF ) and National Alliance ( AN ) were the driving forces behind the group, despite their being alone in their support for the proposed European Constitution.
The first direct elections to the European Parliament took place in June saw the electorate severely punish the ruling Fianna Fáil party.
Fianna Fáil leader Jack Lynch proposed as the party's presidential election candidate Patrick Hillery, retiring European Commissioner for Social Affairs and former Minister for External Affairs.
At the 1979 European elections Blaney topped the poll in the Connacht – Ulster constituency to the annoyance of Fianna Fáil.
Michael O ' Kennedy ( born 21 February 1936 ) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician, who served in a range of cabinet positions, most notably as Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister for Finance and Irish European Commissioner.
He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD in 1977 and held the seat in Kildare ( and later Kildare North ) until 2004 when he became Ireland's European Commissioner.
After Fianna Fáil performed badly in the elections of 5 June 2009, losing half its European Parliament seats, Fine Gael tabled a motion of no confidence against Cowen on 9 June.
Raymond ( Ray ) MacSharry ( born 29 April 1938 ) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician, who served in a range of cabinet positions, most notably as Tánaiste, Minister for Finance and European Commissioner.
Fine Gael is aligned to Christian democratic parties in Europe via its membership of the European People's Party, and is described internationally as centre-right by the likes of Reuters, while Fianna Fáil is described as liberal-conservative and affiliated with the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.
However, Ó Cuív ceased to be Deputy Leader of Fianna Fáil on 29 February 2012 in opposition to his party's stance on the European Fiscal Compact.
Higgins successfully contested the 2009 European Parliament election for the Dublin constituency, beating two incumbents, Mary Lou McDonald of Sinn Féin and Eoin Ryan of Fianna Fáil, for the third and final seat.
* Seán Ó Neachtain-Former Member of the European Parliament and Fianna Fáil politician
* European Parliament Election 2004 – Fine Gael emerge as the largest party eclipsing Fianna Fáil by one seat.
* 20 December-Jim Gibbons, former Fianna Fáil TD, Member of the European Parliament and Cabinet Minister ( b. 1924 ).
* 4 March – Brian Crowley, Fianna Fáil Member of the European Parliament representing Ireland South.
* 5 September-Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, member European Court of Auditors, former Fianna Fáil TD, former Cabinet Minister.
* 30 September — Charlie McCreevy, former Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister, European Commissioner.
* 24 December-Noel Davern, Fianna Fáil TD representing Tipperary South, Cabinet Minister, Member of the European Parliament.
* 9 May-Pádraig Flynn, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and European Commissioner.
* 29 April-Ray MacSharry, Tánaiste, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and European Commissioner.
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