Green Party (Ireland)
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Green Party
Comhaontas Glas |
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| Leader | Eamon Ryan TD |
| Chairman | Roderic O'Gorman |
| Deputy leader | Catherine Martin TD |
| Northern Ireland Assembly leader | Steven Agnew MLA |
| Seanad Leader | Senator Grace O'Sullivan |
| Founded | 1981 |
| Headquarters | 16–17 Suffolk Street, Dublin 2, Ireland |
| Youth wing | Young Greens |
| Ideology |
Green politics Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| European affiliation | European Green Party |
| International affiliation | Global Greens |
| Colours | Green and gold |
| Dáil Éireann |
2 / 158
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| Seanad Éireann |
1 / 60
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| Northern Ireland Assembly |
2 / 108
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| Local government in the Republic of Ireland |
12 / 949
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| Local government in Northern Ireland |
3 / 462
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The Green Party (Irish: Comhaontas Glas) is a green political party in Ireland that operates in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It was founded as the Ecology Party of Ireland in 1981 by Dublin teacher Christopher Fettes. The party became the Green Alliance in 1983 and in 1987 was renamed to its current title in English. Its leader is Eamon Ryan, its deputy leader is Catherine Martin and its chairman is Roderic O'Gorman.
Green Party candidates have been elected to all levels of representation; local, Dáil and European Parliament, and in 2007 the party gained its first representation in the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Green Party in Northern Ireland having become a regional branch of the party the previous year.
The Greens served in the Irish government once, from 2007 to 2011. In the February 2011 election, the party suffered a wipeout, losing all six of its TDs. In the February 2016 election, the Green Party returned to the Dáil with two seats. Following this, Grace O'Sullivan was elected to the Seanad on the 26th of April that year.
It has two representatives in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The party's first electoral outing was at the November 1982 general election when seven candidates contested under the Ecology Party banner, winning 0.2% of the vote. Following a name change, they contested the 1984 European elections, with their party founder Roger Garland winning 1.9% in the Dublin constituency. The following year they won their first election when Marcus Counihan was elected to Killarney Urban District Council at the 1985 local elections. The party nationally ran 34 candidates and won 0.6% of the vote.
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