* 1951 – Enda Kenny, Irish politician, Taoiseach of Ireland

The party has a membership of over 35, 000, and is presently the senior partner governing in a coalition with the Labour Party, with the Fine Gael party leader Enda Kenny serving as Taoiseach.

* Taoiseach Enda Kenny ( Republic of Ireland )

He was again accused of IRA membership in 2012 by Enda Kenny, then Taoiseach of Ireland.

Enda Kenny became the first Taoiseach to reside full-time at the Steward's Lodge in 2011.

For example, the current Taoiseach ( head of government ) is " Enda Kenny, TD ".

When Taoiseach Enda Kenny caused confusion following a speech at Béal na Bláth by crediting Michael Collins with bringing Vladimir Lenin to Ireland, Coogan commented: " Those were the days when bishops were bishops and Lenin was a communist.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny sent his regards and called him an " institution ".

Taoiseach Enda Kenny said Dr FitzGerald was ; a truly remarkable man who made a truly remarkable contribution to Ireland and that ; his towering intellect and enthusiasm for life will be missed by everybody.

Enda Kenny ( born 24 April 1951 ) is an Irish Fine Gael politician, and has been the Taoiseach since 2011.

In July 2012, Taoiseach Enda Kenny unveiled a commemorative plaque to his memory at the site in Booterstown where he was shot.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny also announced that if Cowen did not ask President Mary McAleese for an immediate dissolution of the Dáil Éireann, his own party would put forward a motion of no confidence in the Taoiseach on Tuesday, ahead of Labour's motion.

Bruton was appointed as by the Taoiseach Enda Kenny as Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation on 9 March 2011.

Then leader of the opposition and future Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

Castlebar expanded rapidly during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s largely as a result of the efforts of influential local politicians such as Enda Kenny, the current Taoiseach, Padraig Flynn and Beverly Flynn.

* Enda Kenny, Taoiseach

By convention Taoisigh are numbered to include Cosgrave, for example Enda Kenny is considered the 13th Taoiseach not the 12th.

In his first speech of the new Dáil he opposed the nomination of Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny as Taoiseach.

At her campaign launch Higgins said Taoiseach Enda Kenny was engaging in a “ cynical manipulation of the political agenda ” by delaying the publication of his government's comprehensive spending review until after the elections.

* Taoiseach: Enda Kenny, TD

First editions of this work were presented to US president Barack Obama by Taoiseach Enda Kenny on the occasion of his visit to Dublin, Ireland on 23 May 2011.

When Enda Kenny became Taoiseach Ray promptly changed his tune.

In May 2011, McAleese was appointed as a Senator by the Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

Tributes came from the leaders of the Labour Party and Fine Gael at the time of his death, Eamon Gilmore and Enda Kenny, as well as former Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach John Bruton.

Kenny was left out in the cold when Garret FitzGerald became Taoiseach for the first time in 1981 and again in 1982.

Under Taoiseach John Bruton, Kenny joined the cabinet and was appointed Minister for Tourism and Trade.

Opinion polls of 23 February 2011 sponsored by Paddy Power, the Irish Independent, and The Irish Times suggested that Kenny would lead Fine Gael to its largest total of seats to date in the 31st Dail, and that he would be elected Taoiseach.

Late on the night of 5 March, Fine Gael and Labour formally agreed to form a coalition government with Kenny as Taoiseach and Labour leader Eamon Gilmore as Tánaiste, with Labour being given four other seats in cabinet.

The members of the 31st Dáil convened for the first time on 9 March 2011 and elected Kenny as Taoiseach by a vote of 117 – 27.

A report in the Sunday Mirror said Kenny would be the first Taoiseach to use the Steward's Lodge at Farmleigh as his official residence.

On 11 March, his third day as Taoiseach, Kenny attended his first summit of European Union leaders in Brussels.

Mr. Kenny said Taoiseach Cowen, in defending his own personal handling of events, was refusing to acknowledge that he drove the economy " up on the rocks " for four years when he was minister for finance.

With the advent of a Provisional IRA ceasefire and the beginning of what became known as the Peace Process during the 1990s, the official view of the Rising became more positive and in 1996 an 80th anniversary commemoration at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin was attended by the Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael, John Bruton.

The 90th anniversary was celebrated with military parade in Dublin on Easter Sunday, 2006, attended by the President of Ireland, the Taoiseach and the Lord Mayor of Dublin.

Following revelations at the Moriarty Tribunal on 16 February 1999, in relation to Charles Haughey and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirmed that AIB and Ansbacher wrote off debts of almost £ 200, 000 that he owed in 1993, when he was in financial difficulties because of the collapse of the aircraft leasing company, GPA, in which he was a shareholder.

Although this phenomenon was nothing new, ( the most famous example being Neil Blaney's " Donegal Mafia ") it increased significantly from the early 90's particularly in the Dublin Region with former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern's " Drumcondra mafia " and the separate groups supporting Tom Kitt and Séamus Brennan in Dublin South largely separate from the official party structure.

The Downing Street Declaration was issued on 15 December 1993 by Major and Albert Reynolds, the Irish Taoiseach, with whom he had a friendly relationship: an IRA ceasefire followed in 1994.

Fine Gael, having gambled that former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald would run as its candidate ( even though he had insisted for two years that he would not run for office ) then approached another senior figure, Peter Barry, who had previously been willing to run but had run out of patience and was no longer interested.

Crucial to her appeal was the deep unpopularity of the then Taoiseach Charles Haughey and the rising popularity of the Labour Party leader Dick Spring.

His successor, Patrick Hillery, was also involved in a controversy in 1982, when then Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald requested a dissolution of the Dáil Éireann.

In 1926, he founded Fianna Fáil, and was head of government ( President of the Executive Council, later Taoiseach ) from 1932 to 1948, 1951 to 1954, and 1957 to 1959, when he resigned after being elected as President of Ireland.

The plan then allegedly lost momentum, due in part, it was claimed, to warnings made by both the then Foreign Secretary, James Callaghan, and the Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald who admitted the 12, 000-strong Irish army would be unable to deal with the ensuing civil war.

The office of the President of the Executive Council was less powerful than either its modern equivalent, the office of Taoiseach, or the offices of most modern prime ministers in nations that follow the parliamentary system of government.

On 4 April 2007 in a sign of improving relations between unionist and nationalist groups, the newly-elected First Minister of Northern Ireland, the Reverend Ian Paisley, was invited to visit the battle site by the Taoiseach ( Prime Minister ) Bertie Ahern later in the year.

John Aloysius Costello (; 20 June 1891 – 5 January 1976 ), a successful barrister, was one of the main legal advisors to the government of the Irish Free State after independence, Attorney General of Ireland from 1926 – 1932 and Taoiseach from 1948 – 1951 and 1954 – 1957.

Since Fine Gael was the largest party in the government it had the task of providing a suitable candidate for Taoiseach.

He was convinced to accept the nomination as Taoiseach by close non-political friends.

While Richard Mulcahy was the leader of the party, Costello, who had proved his skill as Taoiseach, remained as parliamentary leader of the party.

Costello was once again elected Taoiseach.

One of the more notable Huguenot descendants in Ireland was Seán Lemass ( 1899 – 1971 ), who served as Taoiseach from 1959 until 1966.

* Sean Francis Lemass, Taoiseach of Ireland from 1959 – 1966, was of Huguenot immigrants who settled in Dublin.

Some years earlier in Crotty v. An Taoiseach, the Irish Supreme Court ruled that changes to the " essential scope or objectives " of then European Communities required such an amendment but it is not entirely clear how it was thought the Nice treaty did so.

A ' Yes ' vote was urged by a massive campaign by the main parties and by civil society and the social partners, including campaigning through canvassing and all forms of media by respected pro-European figures like then EP president Pat Cox, former Czech president Václav Havel, former President of Ireland Patrick Hillery and former Taoiseach ( prime minister ) Dr. Garret Fitzgerald.

It was specifically in his religious capacity that he first agreed to meet the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern.