• the Oireachtas. The 26th Dáil lasted 1,226 days, and saw a change of Taoiseach from Charles Haughey to Albert Reynolds. The 26th Dáil was dissolved by President...
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  • Motion – Dáil Éireann (26th Dáil) – Vol. 402 No. 3". 31 October 1990. Retrieved 21 October 2022.; "Confidence in Government: Motion (Resumed) – Dáil Éireann...
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    Mary O'Rourke (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    for the Cultural and Educational Panel. She stood unsuccessfully for the Dáil at the February 1982 general election, but was subsequently re-elected to...
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  • The 33rd Dáil was elected at the 2020 general election on 8 February 2020 and first met on 20 February 2020. The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of...
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    1989 Irish general election (category 26th Dáil)
    Irish general election to the 26th Dáil was held on Thursday, 15 June, three weeks after the dissolution of the 25th Dáil on 25 May by President Patrick...
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  • Deputy O'Malley to be nominated by Dáil Éireann as Taoiseach. "Nomination of Taoiseach – Votes – Dáil Éireann (26th Dáil) – 29 June 1989". Houses of the...
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    Michael Smith (Irish politician) (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    Educational Panel, before his re-election to the Dáil at the 1987 general election. When Smith was returned to the Dáil in 1987, he was appointed Minister of State...
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    Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    had served as Minister for Labour from 1919 to 1921 in the Dáil Ministry during the First Dáil, and the first since the establishment of the Irish Free...
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    Tom Kitt (politician) (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    "Appointment of Members of Government and Ministers of State – Dáil Éireann (27th Dáil) – Vol. 425 No. 7". Houses of the Oireachtas. 10 February 1993...
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    1992 Irish general election (category 27th Dáil)
    general election to the 27th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 25 November, almost three weeks after the dissolution of the 26th Dáil on 5 November by President...
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  • longest after the 10th Dáil and the 28th Dáil. Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats, denoted with bullets (●), formed the 26th government of Ireland...
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    Mary Harney (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    general election. She is the second longest-ever-serving female member of Dáil Éireann, serving as a Teachta Dála (TD) successively for the Dublin South-West...
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    Charles Haughey (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    Dáil Éireann came in June 1951, when he unsuccessfully contested the general election. While living in Raheny, Haughey was first elected to the Dáil as...
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    The Taoiseach must be nominated by the Dáil, the house of representatives. Following the nomination of the Dáil, the President of Ireland appoints the...
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    Michael D. Higgins (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    13th Seanad in 1973 by Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1981 general election as a Labour Party TD. He was re-elected...
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  • Síle de Valera (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    Cuív, a TD who succeeded her as a minister. De Valera was first elected to Dáil Éireann in the Fianna Fáil landslide victory at the 1977 general election...
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    Michael Lowry (politician) (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    Thereafter he ran as an Independent candidate and has maintained his seat in the Dáil ever since. The Moriarty Tribunal concluded "beyond doubt" that Lowry was...
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    Alan Dukes (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    expanded Kildare constituency, where he won a seat in the 22nd Dáil. On his first day in the Dáil, he was appointed Minister for Agriculture by the Taoiseach...
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    Rory O'Hanlon (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 2002 to 2007, Leas-Cheann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1997 to 2002, Minister for the...
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  • Noel Treacy (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    Retrieved 29 August 2022. "Appointment of Ministers of State. – Dáil Éireann (26th Dáil)". Houses of the Oireachtas. 20 July 1989. Archived from the original...
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    Nora Owen (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    That year she became a member of the executive of Trócaire. She returned to Dáil Éireann following the 1989 general election. In 1993, she became Deputy leader...
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  • Brendan Daly (politician) (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    Retrieved 13 July 2023. "Appointment of Ministers of State. – Dáil Éireann (26th Dáil) – Vol. 391 No. 7". Houses of the Oireachtas. 20 July 1989. Archived...
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    John O'Donoghue (politician) (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 2007 to 2009, Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism from 2002...
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  • Desmond O'Malley (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    Planning) (Amendment) Bill, 1985: Second Stage (Resumed) – EDITVotes – Dáil Éireann (24th Dáil) – 1985-02-20 – Houses of the Oireachtas". Archived from the original...
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    Pat "the Cope" Gallagher (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as Leas-Cheann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 2016 to 2020 and as a Minister of State from 1987 to 1994 and...
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    Brian Lenihan Snr (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    dynasty; his father, Patrick Lenihan, and sister both followed him into Dáil Éireann; his sister Mary O'Rourke sitting in cabinet with him. Two of his...
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    Willie O'Dea (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    stood for election to Dáil Éireann in Limerick East at the 1981 general election, but was unsuccessful. He was elected to the Dáil on his second attempt...
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    Michael Noonan (Fine Gael politician) (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    election for the party and secured a seat in Limerick East. Upon taking his Dáil seat, Noonan became a full-time politician, giving up his teaching post and...
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  • Joe Walsh (Irish politician) (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    remaining on the council until the 1991 local elections. He was elected to Dáil Éireann on his first attempt when he was returned as a Fianna Fáil TD for...
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    Richard Bruton (category Members of the 26th Dáil)
    Appointment of Ministers of State: Announcement by the Taoiseach – Dáil Éireann (24th Dáil)". Houses of the Oireachtas. 22 October 1986. Archived from the...
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