Records of members of the Oireachtas

This is a list of records relating to the Oireachtas, the national parliament of Ireland, which consists of the President of Ireland, and two Houses, Dáil Éireann, a house of representatives whose members are known as Teachtaí Dála or TDs, and Seanad Éireann, a senate whose members are known as senators.

The First Dáil consisted of the Sinn Féin MPs who were elected in the United Kingdom general election of 14 December 1918. They refused to attend the British House of Commons and instead assembled for the first time on 21 January 1919 in the Mansion House in Dublin as the revolutionary unicameral Dáil Éireann.

1,292 TDs have served in the Dáil between 1919 and 2018. The title Father of the Dáil is usually and unofficially conferred on the longest-serving member.

Longest-serving former TDs

This is a list of former TDs who have served at least 30 years in the Dáil. Unless otherwise specified, start and end dates given are those of the relevant general election. Unless stated, the TD listed did not stand in the end-date election.

Name	Party		Elected {{{1}}}	Vacated seat	Dáil Service	Notes
Paddy Smith		Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin/ Fianna Fáil	1923	1977	53y 11m	Cabinet minister
Frank Aiken		Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin/ Fianna Fáil	1923	1973	49y 6m	Longest-serving cabinet minister (1932–1948,1951–1954,1957–1969)
Neil Blaney		Fianna Fáil/ Independent Fianna Fáil	1948 b	Died on 8 November 1995	46y 11m	Cabinet minister
Thomas McEllistrim		Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin/ Fianna Fáil	1923	1969	45y 10m
Séamus Pattison		Labour Party	1961	2007	45y 8m	Ceann Comhairle (1997–2002)
Seán MacEntee		Sinn Féin/ Fianna Fáil	1918	1969	45y 6m	Did not serve between the general elections of 1922 and June 1927
James Ryan		Sinn Féin/ Fianna Fáil	1918	1965	45y 2m	Long-serving cabinet minister. Did not serve between the general elections of 1922 and 1923 (1y 2m)
Seán Lemass		Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin/ Fianna Fáil	1924 b	1969	44y 7m	Taoiseach (1959–1966)
James Everett		Labour Party/ National Labour Party	1923	Died on 18 December 1967	44y 4m	Cabinet minister; leader of the breakaway National Labour Party (1944–1950)
Enda Kenny		Fine Gael	1975 b	2020	44y 2m	Taoiseach (2011–2017)
Oliver J. Flanagan		Fine Gael	1943	1987	43y 8m	Cabinet minister
Martin Corry		Fianna Fáil	June 1927	1969	41y 10m
Patrick McGilligan		Cumann na nGaedheal/ Fine Gael	1923 b	1965	41y 5m	Attorney General (1954–1957)
Richard Mulcahy		Sinn Féin/ Cumann na nGaedheal/ Fine Gael	1918	1961	41y	Did not serve between general elections of 1937 and 1938, nor between those of 1943 and 1944
Éamon de Valera		Sinn Féin/ Fianna Fáil	1918	Elected President in 1959	40y 6m	Taoiseach and President of Ireland; first elected to Westminster at the June 1917 by-election
Cormac Breslin		Fianna Fáil	1937	1977	40y	Ceann Comhairle (1967–1973)
Patrick Hogan		Labour Party	1923	Died on 24 January 1969	39y 8m	Did not serve between the general elections of 1938 and 1943, nor between those of 1944 and 1948
Michael Noonan		Fine Gael	1981	2020	38y, 7m	Cabinet minister. Leader of Fine Gael (2001–2002)
Gerald Boland		Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin/ Fianna Fáil	1923	1961	38y 2m	Long-serving cabinet minister
Liam Cosgrave		Fine Gael	1943	1981	38y	Taoiseach (1973–1977)
Dan Spring		Labour Party/ National Labour Party	1943	1981	38y	Member of the breakaway National Labour Party (1944-1950)
Ruairi Quinn		Labour Party	1977	2016	38y	Senator from 1981 to February 1982
Michael Kennedy		Fianna Fáil	June 1927	1965	37y 10m
Seán Brady		Fianna Fáil	September 1927	1965	37y 7m
Bob Briscoe		Fianna Fáil	September 1927	1965	37y 7m
James Dillon		Centre Party/ Fine Gael/ Independent	1932	1969	37y 4m	Leader of Fine Gael (1959–1965)
David Andrews		Fianna Fáil	1965	2002	37y 1m
Ben Briscoe		Fianna Fáil	1965	2002	37y 1m
Bobby Molloy		Fianna Fáil/ Progressive Democrats	1965	2002	37y 1m	Joined Progressive Democrats in 1986; previously Fianna Fáil
Brendan Corish		Labour Party	1945 b	February 1982	36y 2m	Tánaiste (1973–1977)
Dan Breen		Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin/ Fianna Fáil	1923	1965	35y 11m	Did not serve between the general elections of June 1927 and 1932
Paddy Harte		Fine Gael	1961	1997	35y 8m	Father of the Dáil (1997–2007)
Charles Haughey		Fianna Fáil	1957	1992	35y 8m	Taoiseach (1979–1981, 1982, 1987–1992)
Seán Treacy		Labour Party/ Independent	1961	1997	35y 8m	Ceann Comhairle (1987–1997)
John A. Costello		Fine Gael	1933	1969	35y 7m	Did not serve between the general elections of 1943 and 1944. Taoiseach (1948–1951, 1954–1957)
Vivion de Valera		Fianna Fáil	1945 b	1981	35y 7m	Son of Éamon de Valera
John Bruton		Fine Gael	1969	Resigned on 31 October 2004	35y 4m	Taoiseach (1994–1997). Resigned as TD to become EU Ambassador to the United States
Erskine H. Childers		Fianna Fáil	1938	Elected President in 1973	35y	Tánaiste (1969–1973) and President of Ireland (1973–1974)
Frank Fahy		Sinn Féin/ Fianna Fáil	1918	Died on 14 July 1953	34y 10m	Ceann Comhairle (1932–1951)
Mícheál Ó Móráin		Fianna Fáil	1938	1973	34y 8m	Cabinet minister
Maurice E. Dockrell		Fine Gael	1943	1977	34y 1m
Desmond O'Malley		Fianna Fáil/ Progressive Democrats	1968 b	2002	34y	Founder of the Progressive Democrats and cabinet minister
Dinny McGinley		Fine Gael	February 1982	2016	34y
Bertie Ahern		Fianna Fáil	1977	2011	33y 8m	Taoiseach (1997–2008)
Rory O'Hanlon		Fianna Fáil	1977	2011	33y 8m	Ceann Comhairle (2002–2007)
Jim O'Keeffe		Fine Gael	1977	2011	33y 8m	Cabinet minister
Michael Woods		Fianna Fáil	1977	2011	33y 8m	Cabinet minister
Daniel Morrissey		Cumann na nGaedheal/ Fine Gael	1923	1957	33y 7m	Cabinet minister
Jack Lynch		Fianna Fáil	1948	1981	33y 4m	Taoiseach (1966–1973, 1977–1979)
Seán Barrett		Fine Gael	1981	2020	33y, 4m	Did not hold office between 2002 and 2007. Ceann Comhairle (2011–2016) and cabinet minister.
John Browne		Fianna Fáil	November 1982	2016	33y 3m
Séamus Kirk		Fianna Fáil	November 1982	2016	33y 3m	Ceann Comhairle (2009–2011)
Gerald Bartley		Fianna Fáil	1932	1965	33y 2m	Cabinet minister
Seán Mac Eoin		Cumann na nGaedheal/ Fine Gael	1932	1965	33y 2m	Cabinet minister
Michael P. Kitt		Fianna Fáil	1975 b	2016	32y 11m	Senator from 1977 to 1981, and from 2002 to 2007
Noel Davern		Fianna Fáil	1969	2007	32y 4m	Did not serve from 11 June 1981 to 17 February 1987 (5y 8m)
Addendum
Mary Harney		Fianna Fáil/ PD/ Independent	1981	2011	29y 8m	Tánaiste (1997–2006) and longest ever serving female TD. Also served in the Seanad from 1977–1981

Shortest-serving former TDs

This is a list of former TDs who served for less than 1 year in the Dáil. Unless otherwise specified, start and end dates given are those of the relevant general election.

Name	Party		Elected b = by-election	Vacated seat	Months	Notes
Kieran Doherty		Anti H-Block	1981	Died on 2 August 1981	2m	Died after 73 days on hunger strike; was a TD for 52 days
Malcolm Byrne		Fianna Fáil	November 2019 b	Lost seat in February 2020	2m	71 days between election and defeat
Pierce McCan		Sinn Féin	1918	Died in prison of influenza, 6 March 1919	3m	The Westminster election was on 14 December 1918, but the First Dáil did not sit until 21 January 1919
Michael Carter		Farmers' Party	June 1927	Lost seat in September 1927	3m
Arthur Clery		Independent	June 1927	Lost seat in September 1927	3m
Denis Cullen		Labour	June 1927	Lost seat in September 1927	3m
William Duffy		National League Party	June 1927	Did not contest September 1927	3m
Thomas Falvey		Farmers' Party	June 1927	Lost seat in September 1927	3m
Hugh Garahan		Farmers' Party	June 1927	Lost seat in September 1927	3m
John Gill		Labour	June 1927	Lost seat in September 1927	3m
Gilbert Hewson		Independent	June 1927	Lost seat in September 1927	3m
John Horgan		National League Party	June 1927	Lost seat in September 1927	3m
John Jinks		National League Party	June 1927	Lost seat in September 1927	3m
Gilbert Lynch		Labour	June 1927	Lost seat in September 1927	3m
Eugene Mullen		Fianna Fáil	June 1927	Lost seat in September 1927	3m
David O'Gorman		Farmers' Party	June 1927	Lost seat in September 1927	3m
Timothy Quill		Labour	June 1927	Lost seat in September 1927	3m
James Shannon		Labour	June 1927	Lost seat in September 1927	3m
Thomas Tynan		Fianna Fáil	June 1927	Lost seat in September 1927	3m
Frank Drohan		Sinn Féin	1921	Resigned on 5 January 1922	7m	Returned unopposed on 24 May 1921; the Second Dáil convened on 16 August 1921.
George Lee		Fine Gael	June 2009 b	Resigned on 8 February 2010	8m
Carrie Acheson		Fianna Fáil	1981	Lost seat in February 1982	9m
Paddy Agnew		Anti H-Block	1981	Did not contest February 1982	9m
Carey Joyce		Fianna Fáil	1981	Lost seat in February 1982	9m
Seán Dublin Bay Loftus		Independent	1981	Lost seat in February 1982	9m
Hugh Kennedy		Cumann na nGaedheal	October 1923 b	Resigned on 25 June 1924	9m	Resigned to become Chief Justice of the Irish Free State
Thomas Bellew		Fianna Fáil	February 1982	Lost seat in November 1982	10m
Gerry Brady		Fianna Fáil	February 1982	Lost seat in November 1982	10m
Ned Brennan		Fianna Fáil	February 1982	Lost seat in November 1982	10m
Jim Corr		Fine Gael	February 1982	Did not contest November 1982	10m
Henry Coyle		Cumann na nGaedheal	1923	Disqualified on 9 May 1924	10m	Sentenced to three years' imprisonment for bouncing cheques
Alexis FitzGerald Jnr		Fine Gael	February 1982	Lost seat in November 1982	10m
Patrick Gallagher		Sinn Féin – The Workers' Party	February 1982	Lost seat in November 1982	10m
Thomas O'Mahony		Cumann na nGaedheal	1923	Died on 20 July 1924	11m
Richard Stapleton		Labour	1943	Lost seat in 1944	11m

The following were eligible for membership of the Dáil, but as Unionists, they did not recognise it. Those elected to Westminster in 1918 were eligible for the First Dáil.[1]

Name	Party		Elected	Vacated Westminster seat	Months	Notes
Hugh Anderson		Irish Unionist	1918	Resignation in 1919	< 3m	By-election was held on 4 March 1919
Robert McCalmont		Irish Unionist	1918	Appointment as Commander of the Irish Guards in 1919	< 6m	By-election was held on 27 May 1919
Arthur Samuels		Irish Unionist	1918	Appointment to the King's Bench in 1919	< 8m	By-election was held on 28 July 1919

Current office-holders, longest service in the Oireachtas

This is a list of current members of the Oireachtas who have served for at least 20 years, with continuous or broken service. Unless otherwise specified, start dates given are those of the relevant election.

Name	Party		Office	First elected/appointed b = by-election	Years/Months (as of 7 February 2021)	Notes
Michael D. Higgins		Labour	Senator TD President	1973	42 years, 6 month(s) (as of Jan 2021)	Current President of Ireland Did not hold office between 1977 and 1981, and February and November 2011
Bernard Durkan		Fine Gael	TD Senator	1981	39 years, 7 months	Senator from February 1982 to November 1982
Richard Bruton		Fine Gael	Senator TD	1981	39 years, 3 months	Senator from October 1981 to February 1982. Father of the Dáil.
Willie O'Dea		Fianna Fáil	TD	February 1982	38 years, 11 months	Father of the Dáil
Brendan Howlin		Labour	Senator TD	1983	37 years, 11 months	Senator from 1983 to 1987
Michael Lowry		Independent	TD	1987	33 years, 11 months
David Norris		Independent	Senator	1987	33 years, 9 months
Micheál Martin		Fianna Fáil	TD	1989	31 years, 7 months	Leader of Fianna Fáil
Éamon Ó Cuív		Fianna Fáil	Senator TD	1989	31 years, 4 months	Senator from 1989 to 1992
Charles Flanagan		Fine Gael	TD	1987	28 years, 8 month(s) (as of Jan 2021)	Did not hold office between 2002 and 2007
Seán Haughey		Fianna Fáil	Senator TD	1987	28 years, 6 month(s) (as of Jan 2021)	Senator from 1987 to 1992. Did not hold office between February 2011 and February 2016.
Róisín Shortall		Social Democrats	TD	1992	28 years, 2 months
Brendan Smith		Fianna Fáil	TD	1992	28 years, 2 months
Paddy Burke		Fine Gael	Senator	1993	27 years, 11 months	Cathaoirleach (2011–2016)
Michael Ring		Fine Gael	TD	1994 b	26 years, 7 months
Michael Creed		Fine Gael	TD	1989	26 years, 5 month(s) (as of Jan 2022)	Did not hold office between May 2002 and May 2007
Denis O'Donovan		Fianna Fáil	Senator TD	1989	26 years, 3 month(s) (as of Jan 2021)	Did not hold office between December 1992 and September 1997
Denis Naughten		Independent	Senator / TD	1997	24 years	Senator from January to June 1997
John McGuinness		Fianna Fáil	TD	1997	23 years, 8 months
David Stanton		Fine Gael	TD	1997	23 years, 8 months
Michael Moynihan		Fianna Fáil	TD	1997	23 years, 8 months
Seán Fleming		Fianna Fáil	TD	1997	23 years, 8 months
Simon Coveney		Fine Gael	TD	1998 b	22 years, 3 months

Longest-serving Senators

This is a list of current and former Senators who have served for at least 20 years in the Seanad, including both the Free State Seanad and the Seanad established under the 1937 Constitution. There was a 22-month gap between the abolition of the Free State Seanad in 1936 and the inauguration in 1938 of the 2nd Seanad, the first incarnation of the new body.

•   denotes serving senator

Name	Party		First elected	Vacated seat	Years/Months	Notes
Henry Barniville		Fine Gael	6 December 1922	23 September 1960	35 years, 11 months	Service interrupted by the abolition of the Free State Seanad
David Norris		Independent	25 April 1987	Incumbent	33 years, 9 months
Margaret Mary Pearse		Fianna Fáil	27 April 1938	7 November 1968	30 years, 6 months
Eoin Ryan Snr		Fianna Fáil	22 May 1957	3 April 1987	29 years, 10 months
Liam Ó Buachalla		Fianna Fáil	7 October 1939	24 July 1969	29 years, 9 months
Shane Ross		Independent	8 October 1981	26 February 2011	29 years, 4 months
James G. Douglas		Independent	6 December 1922	16 September 1954	28 years, 9 months	Service interrupted by the abolition of the Free State Seanad; Did not serve in 4th Seanad
Rory Kiely		Fianna Fáil	27 October 1977	22 July 2007	28 years, 9 months	Did not serve in 16th Seanad
Patrick McGowan		Fianna Fáil	23 June 1965	3 October 1999	28 years, 5 months	Did not serve in 15th, 16th and 17th Seanad
Paddy Burke		Fine Gael	17 February 1993	Incumbent	27 years, 11 months
Des Hanafin		Fianna Fáil	5 November 1969	26 June 2002	27 years, 10 months	Did not serve in 20th Seanad
William Ryan		Fianna Fáil	14 December 1961	5 July 1989	27 years, 6 months
Michael Hayes		Fine Gael	27 April 1938	28 April 1965	27 years
Charles McDonald		Fine Gael	14 December 1961	17 December 1992	26 years, 4 months	Did not serve in 13th Seanad
Paschal Mooney		Fianna Fáil	25 April 1987	April 2016	26 years, 4 months	Did not serve 2y, 6m from July 2007 to January 2010
John Counihan		Independent	6 December 1922	25 July 1951	26 years, 3 months	Did not serve in 2nd Seanad
Thomas Ruane		Fianna Fáil	6 December 1934	28 April 1965	25 years, 9 months	Service interrupted by the abolition of the Free State Seanad; Did not serve in 4th and 6th Seanad
Patrick O'Reilly		Fianna Fáil	18 August 1944	24 July 1969	24 years, 11 months
Seán O'Donovan		Fianna Fáil	27 April 1938	24 July 1969	24 years, 10 months	Did not serve in 6th and 8th Seanad
Mick Lanigan		Fianna Fáil	27 October 1977	26 June 2002	24 years, 7 months
Joe O'Toole		Independent	25 April 1987	29 April 2011	24 years
Donie Cassidy		Fianna Fáil	13 May 1982	29 April 2011	24 years	Did not serve in 22nd Seanad from 2002 to 2007
Feargal Quinn		Independent	17 February 1993	April 2016	23 years, 2 months
James Parkinson		Fine Gael	6 December 1922	31 July 1947	22 years, 9 months	Service interrupted by the abolition of the Free State Seanad
Paul Coghlan		Fine Gael	20 September 1997	27 March 2020	22 years, 6 months
Patrick Baxter		Clann na Talmhan	6 December 1934	3 April 1959	22 years, 5 months	Service interrupted by the abolition of the Free State Seanad
John Butler		Labour	27 April 1938	28 April 1965	22 years, 3 months	Did not serve in 9th Seanad
Seán Hayes		Fianna Fáil	27 April 1938	28 April 1965	22 years, 2 months	Did not serve in 4th and 6th Seanad
William O'Callaghan		Independent	27 April 1938	1 September 1961	22 years, 2 months	Did not serve in 4th Seanad
James Tunney		Labour	27 April 1938	1 September 1961	22 years, 2 months	Did not serve in 4th Seanad
Thomas Foran		Labour	28 November 1923	12 March 1948	22 years	Did not serve in 2nd Seanad
Patrick Fitzsimons		Independent	21 April 1948	30 March 1973	22 years	Did not serve in 8th Seanad
Peter Lynch		Independent	7 September 1938	1 September 1961	22 years
Sir John Keane		Independent	6 December 1922	12 March 1948	21 years, 10 months	Did not serve in 1934–1936 Seanad
Francis O'Brien		Fianna Fáil	1 October 1989	29 April 2011	21 years, 7 months
William Quirke		Independent	6 December 1931	5 March 1955	21 years, 4 months	Service interrupted by the abolition of the Free State Seanad
William Bedell Stanford		Independent	21 April 1948	24 July 1969	21 years, 3 months
Michael Yeats		Fianna Fáil	14 August 1951	12 March 1980	21 years	Did not serve in 8th and 9th Seanad
James Dooge		Fine Gael	14 December 1961	3 April 1987	20 years, 10 months	Did not serve in 14th Seanad
Micheál Prendergast		Fine Gael	22 July 1954	26 May 1977	20 years, 9 months	Did not serve from March 1973 to April 1975
Brian Mullooly		Fianna Fáil	8 October 1981	26 June 2002	20 years, 8 months
Brendan Ryan		Independent	13 May 1982	22 July 2007	20 years, 5 months	Did not serve in 20th Seanad
Eddie Bohan		Fianna Fáil	25 April 1987	22 July 2007	20 years, 2 months
Don Lydon		Fianna Fáil	25 April 1987	22 July 2007	20 years, 2 months
Bernard McGlinchey		Fianna Fáil	14 December 1961	21 December 1982	20 years, 2 months	Did not serve in 15th Seanad
Patrick Quinlan		Independent	22 May 1957	26 May 1977	20 years

Oldest living former office-holders

Aged 85 or older:

Name	Office(s) held	Date of birth	Age	Year retired
Patrick Byrne	TD	2 April 1925	95 years, 10 months	1969
Tom Fitzpatrick	TD	29 July 1926	94 years, 6 months	1982
John A. Murphy	Senator	17 January 1927	94 years	1993
Jimmy Leonard	TD	5 June 1927	93 years, 8 months	1997
Patrick Norton	TD / Senator	1928	92 years, 1 month+	1973
Tras Honan	Senator	4 January 1930	91 years, 1 month	1993
Kieran Crotty	TD	30 August 1930	90 years, 5 months	1989
Patrick Cooney	TD / Senator / MEP	2 March 1931	89 years, 11 months	1994
Gerard Lynch	TD / Senator	15 June 1931	89 years, 7 months	1981
Thomas Meaney	TD	11 August 1931	89 years, 5 months	1982
Mervyn Taylor	TD	28 December 1931	89 years, 1 month	1997
Brigid Hogan-O'Higgins	TD	10 March 1932	88 years, 10 months	1977
Eileen Lemass	TD / MEP	7 July 1932	88 years, 7 months	1989
Roger Garland	TD	February 1933	87 years, 11 months+	1992
Liam Hyland	TD / Senator / MEP	24 April 1933	87 years, 9 months	2004
Tom Raftery	Senator / MEP	15 August 1933	87 years, 5 months	1993
Jim Corr	TD	25 January 1934	87 years	1982
Rory O'Hanlon	TD	7 February 1934	87 years	2011
Michael D'Arcy	TD / Senator	7 March 1934	86 years, 11 months	2002
Ben Briscoe	TD	11 March 1934	86 years, 10 months	2002
Carrie Acheson	TD	11 September 1934	86 years, 4 months	1982
Toddy O'Sullivan	TD	1 December 1934	86 years, 2 months	1997
Liam Kavanagh	TD / MEP	9 February 1935	85 years, 11 months	1997
Bríd Rodgers	Senator	20 February 1935	85 years, 11 months	2002
Brian Mullooly	Senator	21 February 1935	85 years, 11 months	2002
David Andrews	TD	15 March 1935	85 years, 10 months	2002
Barry Desmond	TD	15 May 1935	85 years, 8 months	1994
Charles McDonald	TD / Senator / MEP	11 June 1935	85 years, 7 months	1993
Brendan Griffin	TD	28 August 1935	85 years, 5 months	1989
Michael Woods	TD	8 December 1935	85 years, 1 month	2011

Oldest ever office-holders

Office holders aged 75 or older:

Name	Office	Age	Year Retired
Éamon de Valera	President	Retired aged 90	1973
Gerald Boland	Senator	Retired aged 84	1969
Seán MacEntee	TD	Retired aged 80	1969
Maurice Hayes	Senator	Retired aged 80	2007
Charles Fagan	TD	Retired aged 80	1961
Michael D. Higgins	President	In office aged 79 years, 9 months	—
Jackie Healy-Rae	TD	Retired aged 79	2011
Feargal Quinn	Senator	Retired aged 79	2016
James Ryan	Senator	Retired aged 77	1969
Seán T. O'Kelly	President	Retired aged 77	1959
P. J. Sheehan	TD	Retired aged 77	2011
Rory O'Hanlon	TD	Retired aged 77	2011
David Norris	Senator	In office aged 76 years, 6 months	—
Paddy Smith	TD	Retired aged 76	1977
Ann Ormonde	Senator	Lost seat aged 76	2011
Labhrás Ó Murchú	Senator	Retired aged 76	2016
Michael Noonan	TD	Retired aged 76	2020
Bernard Durkan	TD	In office aged 75 years, 10 months	—
Paul Coghlan	Senator	Retired aged 75	2020
Seán Barrett	TD	Retired aged 75	2020

Youngest ever office-holders

Name	Office	Age on election	Year elected
William J. Murphy	TD	21y 1m	1949
Joseph Sweeney	TD	21y 6m	1918
Lorcan Allen	TD	21y 6m	1961
Kathleen O'Connor	TD	21y 7m	1956
Ivan Yates	TD	21y 8m	1981
Mary Coughlan	TD	21y 9m	1987
John Bruton	TD	22y 1m	1969
Paddy Smith	TD	22y 2m	1923
Miriam Kearney	Senator	22y 3m	1981
Myra Barry	TD	22y 4m	1979
Síle de Valera	TD	22y 6m	1977
Kathryn Reilly	Senator	22y 7m	2011
James O'Connor	TD	22y 7m	2020
Oliver J. Flanagan	TD	23y 1m	1943
Liam Cosgrave	TD	23y 2m	1943

Longest surviving cabinet members

Government	Members
Brugha (1919)	Richard Mulcahy (died 1971)
De Valera (1919–1921)	Éamon de Valera (died 1975)
De Valera (1921–1922)
Griffith (1922)	Michael Hayes (died 1976)
Collins (1922)
Cosgrave (1922)	Ernest Blythe (died 1975)
Cosgrave (1922–1923)
Cosgrave (1923–1927)	Patrick McGilligan (died 1979)
Cosgrave (1927)
Cosgrave (1927–1930)
Cosgrave (1930–1932)
De Valera (1932–1933)	Seán MacEntee (died 1984)
De Valera (1933–1937)
De Valera (1937)
De Valera (1937–1938)
De Valera (1938–1943)
De Valera (1943–1944)
De Valera (1944–1948)
Costello (1948–1951)	Noël Browne (died 1997)
De Valera (1951–1954)	Seán MacEntee (died 1984)
Costello (1954–1957)	Liam Cosgrave (died 2017)
De Valera (1957–1959)	Kevin Boland (died 2001)
Lemass (1959–1961)	Patrick Hillery (died 2008)
Lemass (1961–1965)
Lemass (1965–1966)
Lynch (1966–1969)	Pádraig Faulkner (died 2012)
Lynch (1969–1973)	Gerry Collins, Michael O'Kennedy, Desmond O'Malley
Cosgrave (1973–1977)	Patrick Cooney
Lynch (1977–1979)	Gerry Collins, Michael O'Kennedy, Desmond O'Malley
Haughey (1979–1981)	Ray Burke, Gerry Collins, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Ray MacSharry, Michael O'Kennedy, Desmond O'Malley, Michael Woods
FitzGerald (1981–1982)	John Bruton, Patrick Cooney, Alan Dukes, Liam Kavanagh, Paddy O'Toole

Longest surviving Dáil members

Dáil	Election	Members
1st Dáil	1918	Seán MacEntee (died 1984)
2nd Dáil	1921	Tom Maguire (died 1993)
3rd Dáil	1922
4th Dáil	1923
5th Dáil	1927 (June)	Seán MacEntee (died 1984)
6th Dáil	1927 (Sept)
7th Dáil	1932	James Dillon (died 1986)
8th Dáil	1933	James McGuire (died 1989)
9th Dáil	1937	James Dillon (died 1986)
10th Dáil	1938
11th Dáil	1943	Liam Cosgrave (died 2017)
12th Dáil	1944
13th Dáil	1948	William J. Murphy (died 2018)
14th Dáil	1951	Liam Cosgrave (died 2017)
15th Dáil	1954	Patrick Byrne
16th Dáil	1957	Patrick Byrne, Brigid Hogan
17th Dáil	1961	Lorcan Allen, Patrick Byrne, John Donnellan, Brigid Hogan-O'Higgins
18th Dáil	1965	Lorcan Allen, David Andrews, Ben Briscoe, Patrick Byrne, John Donnellan, Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, Brigid Hogan-O'Higgins, Thomas Meaney, Patrick Norton

Longest lived former office-holders

Aged 90 or more at time of death:

Name	Date of birth	Date of death	Age
Eddie Filgate	16 September 1915	19 January 2017	101y 4m
Tom Maguire	28 March 1892	5 July 1993	101y 4m
T. K. Whitaker	8 December 1916	9 January 2017	100y 1m
Edward MacLysaght	6 November 1887	4 March 1986	98y 3m
Seán Ó Ceallaigh	17 April 1896	15 June 1994	98y 1m
Domhnall Ua Buachalla	5 February 1866	30 October 1963	97y 8m
Liam Cosgrave	13 April 1920	4 October 2017	97y 6m
Matthew Stafford	1852	12 June 1950	97y 5m+
Philip Brady	10 June 1898	6 January 1995	96y 7m
George Noble Plunkett	3 December 1851	12 March 1948	96y 3m
Patrick Byrne	2 April 1925		95 years, 10 months
Séamus Dolan	10 December 1914	10 August 2010	95y 8m
Thomas Finlay	17 September 1922	3 December 2017	95y 2m
Thomas Westropp Bennett	30 January 1867	1 February 1962	95y
Kathleen Clarke	11 April 1878	29 September 1972	94y 6m
Seán Treacy	23 September 1923	23 March 2018	94y 6m
Robert Barton	4 March 1881	10 August 1975	94y 5m
Joseph Farrell	1 July 1905	24 November 1999	94y 5m
Tom Fitzpatrick	29 July 1926		94 years, 6 months
Seán MacEntee	22 August 1889	10 January 1984	94y 5m
Pádraig Faulkner	12 March 1918	1 June 2012	94y 2m
Jack Harte	10 December 1920	9 March 2015	94y 2m
Tom O'Donnell	30 August 1926	8 October 2020	94y 1m
Tony Herbert	1920	6 March 2014	94y+
John A. Murphy	17 January 1927		94 years
Hugh Conaghan	6 May 1926	25 March 2020	93y 10m
Richard Barry	4 September 1919	28 April 2013	93y 7m
Jimmy Leonard	5 June 1927		93 years, 8 months
Patrick Finucane	5 December 1890	10 April 1984	93y 4m
Thomas Tynan	1859	24 September 1953	93y 3m+
Peadar O'Donnell	22 February 1893	13 May 1986	93y 3m
Denis Cullen	23 September 1878	26 November 1971	93y 2m
Donal Creed	7 September 1924	23 November 2017	93y 2m
Sam McAughtry	24 March 1921	28 March 2014	93y
William McMullen	1888	1982	93y+
Kit Ahern	13 January 1915	27 December 2007	92y 11m
Éamon de Valera	14 October 1882	29 August 1975	92y 10m
William Sheldon	18 January 1907	1 November 1999	92y 9m
Charles Fagan	1 October 1881	8 May 1974	92y 7m
Ted Russell	1 April 1912	28 November 2004	92y 7m
Joseph Dowling	2 February 1922	31 May 2014	92y 3m
Patrick Norton	1928		92 years, 1 month
Patrick Shanahan	10 March 1908	1 February 2000	91y 11m
Andy O'Brien	21 January 1915	4 December 2006	91y 10m
Eileen Costello	27 June 1870	4 March 1962	91y 8m
John N. Ross	17 May 1920	24 December 2011	91y 7m
Robert Malachy Burke	1 March 1907	20 September 1998	91 6m
Peter Sands	1 May 1924	17 October 2015	91y 5m
Séamus de Brún	1 October 1911	5 March 2003	91y 5m
Hugh Gibbons	6 July 1916	13 November 2007	91y 4m
Jackie Fahey	23 January 1928	18 March 2019	91y 1m
Conor Cruise O'Brien	3 November 1917	18 December 2008	91y 1m
Tras Honan	4 January 1930		91 years, 1 month
Patrick O'Reilly	1911	2003	91+
Edward McGuire	1901	27 October 1992	90y 9m+
Bryan Cusack	2 August 1882	24 May 1973	90y 9m
Thomas Johnson	17 May 1872	17 January 1963	90y 8m
Patrick McGilligan	12 April 1889	15 November 1979	90y 7m
Maurice Hayes	8 July 1927	23 December 2017	90y 5m
Dominick Murphy	1918	1 June 2009	90y 5m+
William J. Murphy	17 May 1928	18 September 2018	90y 4m
Margaret Mary Pearse	24 August 1878	7 November 1968	90y 2m
Richie Ryan	27 February 1929	17 March 2019	90y
John Griffith	5 October 1848	21 October 1938	90y
Patrick Lalor	21 July 1926	29 July 2016	90y

Shortest lived office-holders

Aged 40 or younger at time of death:

Name	Date of birth	Date of death	Age	Cause of death
Kieran Doherty	16 October 1955	2 August 1981	25y	Hunger strike
Liam Mellows	25 May 1895	8 December 1922	27y 6m	Execution during the Irish Civil War
Michael Collins	16 October 1890	22 August 1922	31y 10m	Shot during the Irish Civil War
Don Davern	4 March 1935	2 November 1968	33y 7m	Sudden illness
Michael Derham	1889	20 November 1923	34y 10m-	Sudden illness
Kevin O'Higgins	7 June 1892	10 July 1927	35y 1m	Assassinated by former Civil War opponents
Séamus Dwyer	15 November 1886	20 December 1922	36y 1m	Assassinated during the Irish Civil War
Billy Fox	3 January 1939	12 March 1974	35y 2m	Assassinated during the Troubles
Harry Boland	27 April 1887	31 July 1922	35y 3m	Shot during the Irish Civil War
Frank Carney	25 April 1896	19 October 1932	36y 5m	Ill-health
Pierce McCan	2 August 1882	6 March 1919	36y 7m	Influenza epidemic
Séamus Ryan	6 December 1895	30 June 1933	37y 6m	Sudden illness
Thomas A. Finlay	11 October 1893	22 November 1932	39y 1m	Typhoid fever
A. P. Byrne	1913	26 July 1952	39y 6m-
Sir Osmond Esmonde	4 April 1896	22 July 1936	40y 3m	Sudden illness
Clement Coughlan	14 August 1942	1 February 1983	40y 5m	Traffic accident

Longest-serving cabinet ministers (in same office)

Name	Office	Years
Seán Lemass	Minister for Industry and Commerce	19 years, 2 months
Éamon de Valera	Minister for External Affairs	15 years, 11 months
Frank Aiken	Minister for External Affairs	15 years, 3 months
James Ryan	Minister for Agriculture	14 years, 10 months
Thomas Derrig	Minister for Education	14 years, 1 month
Gerald Boland	Minister for Justice	11 years, 4 months
Oscar Traynor	Minister for Defence	11 years, 4 months
Seán MacEntee	Minister for Finance	10 years, 5 months

Shortest-serving cabinet ministers

This table lists the shortest periods that a member of government held a particular ministerial office. In some of these cases, the minister held it as well as another ministerial office, being appointed after the resignation of another member of government. Acting Ministers are not listed. Jim McDaid, who was proposed as Minister for Defence on 13 November 1991, but whose name was withdrawn later that day, is not included.[2][3]

Name	Office	Length	Term of Office		Notes
Bertie Ahern	Minister for Industry and Commerce	8 days	4 January 1993	12 January 1993	Following nomination of Pádraig Flynn as European Commissioner
Brian Cowen	Minister for Energy	11 days	12 January 1993	20 January 1993	Prior to reconfiguration of government departments
Frank Aiken	Minister for Agriculture	11 days	16 November 1957	27 November 1957	Following death of Seán Moylan
Barry Cowen	Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine	17 days	27 June 2020	14 July 2020	Sacked as minister
Kevin O'Higgins	Minister for Foreign Affairs	17 days	23 June 1927	10 July 1927	Died in office
Arthur Griffith	Minister for Foreign Affairs	17 days	26 July 1922	12 August 1922	Died in office
Thomas Derrig	Minister for Posts and Telegraphs	19 days	8 September 1939	27 September 1939
Seán T. O'Kelly	Minister for Education	19 days	8 September 1939	27 September 1939
Paddy Power	Minister for Trade, Commerce and Tourism	20 days	7 October 1982	27 October 1982	Following resignation of Desmond O'Malley
Erskine Childers	Director of Propaganda	20 days	12 February 1921	8 March 1921
John Wilson	Minister for Communications	27 days	10 March 1987	31 March 1987	Prior to reconfiguration of government departments
Bertie Ahern	Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht	27 days	18 November 1994	15 December 1994	Following resignation of Michael D. Higgins
Charlie McCreevy	Minister for Enterprise and Employment	27 days	18 November 1994	15 December 1994	Following resignation of Ruairi Quinn
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn	Minister for Equality and Law Reform	27 days	18 November 1994	15 December 1994	Following resignation of Mervyn Taylor
Michael Smith	Minister for Education	27 days	18 November 1994	15 December 1994	Following resignation of Niamh Bhreathnach
Michael Woods	Minister for Health	27 days	18 November 1994	15 December 1994	Following resignation of Brendan Howlin
Dara Calleary	Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine	38 days	15 July 2020	21 August 2020	Resignation

People appointed to cabinet at the start of their first term as TD

Name	Office	Date
Noël Browne	Minister for Health	February 1948
Kevin Boland	Minister for Defence	March 1957
Martin O'Donoghue	Minister for Economic Planning and Development	July 1977
Alan Dukes	Minister for Agriculture	June 1981
Niamh Bhreathnach	Minister for Education	January 1993
Katherine Zappone	Minister for Children and Youth Affairs	May 2016
Norma Foley	Minister for Education	June 2020
Roderic O'Gorman	Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth	June 2020

People appointed as Minister of State at the start of their first term as TD

Name	Office[lower-alpha 1]	Date
John O'Donovan	Parliamentary Secretary to the Government	June 1954
John M. Kelly	Government Chief Whip Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence	March 1973
Mary Flaherty	Minister of State for Poverty and the Family	June 1981
Dick Spring	Minister of State for Law Reform	June 1981
Ted Nealon	Minister of State for Western Development	June 1981
Joan Burton	Minister of State for Poverty	January 1993
Eithne FitzGerald	Minister of State for the National Development Plan	January 1993
Tim O'Malley	Minister of State for Mental Health Services and Food Safety	June 2002
Ciarán Cannon	Minister of State for Training and Skills	March 2011
Alan Kelly	Minister of State for Public and Commuter Transport	March 2011
Seán Canney	Minister of State for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief	May 2016
Ossian Smyth	Minister of State for Public Procurement and eGovernment	July 2020
Malcolm Noonan	Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform	July 2020

Senators appointed to cabinet

Name	Office	Date	Government
Joseph Connolly	Minister for Posts and Telegraphs	March 1932	6th Exec. Council
	Minister for Lands and Fisheries	February 1933	7th Exec. Council
Seán Moylan	Minister for Agriculture	May 1957	8th Government
James Dooge	Minister for Foreign Affairs	October 1981	17th Government

Oldest person currently in office

Politicians born before 1951:

Name	Office	Date of birth	Age as of 7 February 2021
Michael D. Higgins	President	18 April 1941	79 years, 9 months
David Norris	Senator	1 July 1944	76 years, 7 months
Bernard Durkan	TD	26 March 1945	75 years, 10 months
Fergus O'Dowd	TD	1 September 1948	72 years, 5 months

Youngest person currently in office

Politicians born since 1981:

Name	Office	Date of birth	Age as of 7 February 2021
James O'Connor	TD	20 June 1997	23 years, 7 months
Claire Kerrane	TD	24 April 1992	28 years, 9 months
Fintan Warfield	Senator	16 March 1992	28 years, 10 months
John McGahon	Senator	20 November 1990	30 years, 2 months
Jack Chambers	TD	21 November 1990	30 years, 2 months
Mairéad Farrell	TD	6 January 1990	31 years, 1 month
Eileen Flynn	Senator	1990	31 years, 1 month
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire	TD	8 February 1989	31 years, 11 months
Annie Hoey	Senator	3 October 1988	31 years, 10 months
Simon Harris	TD	17 October 1986	34 years, 3 months
Lisa Chambers	Senator	24 August 1986	34 years, 5 months
Helen McEntee	TD	8 June 1986	34 years, 7 months
Niall Ó Donnghaile	Senator	28 May 1985	35 years, 8 months
Lynn Ruane	Senator	20 October 1984	36 years, 3 months
Maura Hopkins	Senator	3 May 1984	36 years, 9 months
Duncan Smith	TD	17 May 1983	37 years, 2 months
Paul Murphy	TD	13 April 1983	37 years, 9 months
Peter Burke	TD	22 October 1982	38 years, 3 months
Catherine Ardagh	Senator	20 September 1982	38 years, 4 months
Eoghan Murphy	TD	23 April 1982	38 years, 9 months
Brendan Griffin	TD	14 March 1982	38 years, 10 months
Robert Troy	TD	24 January 1982	39 years
Lorraine Clifford-Lee	Senator	22 September 1981	39 years, 4 months
Kathleen Funchion	TD	22 April 1981	39 years, 9 months

Members of the current Government by age

Name	Date of birth	Age as of 7 February 2021
Micheál Martin	1 August 1960	60 years, 6 months
Heather Humphreys	14 May 1963	57 years, 8 months
Eamon Ryan	28 July 1963	57 years, 6 months
Norma Foley	1970	51 years, 1 month
Simon Coveney	16 June 1972	48 years, 7 months
Catherine Martin	7 December 1972	48 years, 2 months
Darragh O'Brien	8 July 1974	46 years, 6 months
Paschal Donohoe	19 September 1974	46 years, 4 months
Stephen Donnelly	14 December 1975	45 years, 1 month
Michael McGrath	23 August 1976	44 years, 5 months
Charlie McConalogue	4 October 1977	43 years, 4 months
Leo Varadkar	18 January 1979	42 years
Roderic O'Gorman	12 December 1982	38 years, 1 month
Helen McEntee	8 June 1986	34 years, 7 months
Simon Harris	17 October 1986	34 years, 3 months

Longest service (cumulative)

Name	Office(s)	Years
Éamon de Valera	TD / President	55
Paddy Smith	TD	54
Frank Aiken	TD	50
James Ryan	TD / Senator	50
Neil Blaney	TD / MEP	47
Gerald Boland	TD / Senator	46

Married couples/Domestic partners in the same Oireachtas

Couple		Oireachtas	Notes[lower-alpha 2]
Michael O'Higgins	Brigid Hogan-O'Higgins	16th, 17th and 18th Dáil	Married in 1958 when both were members of the 16th Dáil
Alexis FitzGerald Jnr	Mary Flaherty	23rd Dáil and 15th Seanad; 24th Dáil and 17th Seanad	Married couple
Joe McHugh	Olwyn Enright	29th Dáil and 22nd Seanad; 30th Dáil	Married in 2005 when they were a Senator and TD respectively
Paul Bradford	Lucinda Creighton	24th Seanad and 31st Dáil	Married in 2013 when they were a Senator and TD respectively
Martin McAleese	Mary McAleese	24th Seanad and President of Ireland	Married couple
Francis Noel Duffy	Catherine Martin	33rd Dáil	Married couple
Eoin Ó Broin	Lynn Boylan	33rd Dáil and 26th Seanad	Domestic partners

Members of both the British Parliament and of the Oireachtas

This list excludes abstentionist MPs, such as the members of the 1st Dáil and modern Sinn Féin MPs.

Name	British Parliament	Oireachtas
Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo	Peer 1890–1927	Senator 1922–1927
P. J. Brady	MP 1910–1918	Senator 1927–1928
Alfie Byrne	MP 1915–1918	TD 1922–1928, 1932–1956, Senator 1928–1931
James Campbell, later Lord Glenavy	MP 1898–1900, 1903–1917, Peer 1921–1931	Senator 1922–1928
Bryan Cooper	MP 1910	TD 1923–1930
James Cosgrave	MP 1914–1918	TD 1923–1927
William Duffy	MP 1900–1918	TD 1927
Sir John Esmonde	MP 1915–1918	TD 1937–1944
Sir Thomas Esmonde	MP 1885–1918	Senator 1922–1934
Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard	Peer 1889–1948	Senator 1922–1934
Laurence Ginnell	MP 1906–1918	TD 1918–1923
Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh	Peer 1967–1992	Senator 1973–1977
Edward Haughey, later Lord Ballyedmond	Peer 2004–2014	Senator 1994–2002
Ralph Howard, 7th Earl of Wicklow	Peer 1905–1946	Senator 1922–1928
Hugh Law	MP 1902–1918	TD 1927–1932
Seamus Mallon	MP 1986–2005	Senator 1982
James O'Mara	MP 1900–1907	TD 1918–1921, 1924–1927
Stephen O'Mara	MP 1886	Senator 1925–1926
Earl of Kerry, later Marquess of Lansdowne	MP 1908–1918, Peer 1927–1936	Senator 1922–1929
Horace Plunkett	MP 1892–1900	Senator 1922–1925
William Redmond	MP 1910–1922	TD 1923–1932
Geoffrey Taylour, 4th Marquess of Headfort	Peer 1894–1943	Senator 1922–1928
Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl	Peer 1871–1926	Senator 1922–1926

Diversity records

Women

• First female TD – Constance Markievicz, elected to the First Dáil in 1918
• First female minister – Constance Markievicz who served as Minister for Labour in the First Dáil from 1919–1922
• First female Senators – Eileen Costello, Ellen Cuffe, Alice Stopford Green and Jennie Wyse Power, elected or nominated in 1922
• First female Minister of State – Máire Geoghegan-Quinn became Minister of State for Industry and Energy in 1977
• First female cabinet minister since independence – Máire Geoghegan-Quinn became Minister for the Gaeltacht in 1979
• First female President of Ireland – Mary Robinson, who was elected in 1990 and served until 1997
• First female Tánaiste – Mary Harney, appointed in 1997

Religion

• First Jewish Senator – Ellen Cuffe, appointed to the Irish Free State Seanad Éireann as an independent member (1922–1931)
• First Jewish TD – Robert Briscoe, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South (1932–1948) and Dublin South-West (1948–1961)
• First openly atheist TD – Jim Kemmy, Democratic Socialist Party/Labour Party TD for Limerick East 1981–1982 and 1987–1997
• First Muslim TD – Moosajee Bhamjee, Labour Party TD for Clare from 1992–1997
• First Quaker Senator – James G. Douglas, independent Senator from 1922–1936 and 1938–1957

Seanad

• First openly gay Oireachtas member – David Norris, Independent Senator for University of Dublin since 1987.
• First openly lesbian Oireachtas member – Katherine Zappone, Independent Senator from 2011 to 2016.
• First member of the Oireachtas in a recognised same-sex relationship – Katherine Zappone, who married Ann Louise Gilligan in British Columbia, Canada in 2003. This was recognised in Irish law as a civil partnership from 2010 and as marriage from 2015.
• First serving member of the Oireachtas to enter into a same-sex marriage – Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael Senator) in December 2017.
• First serving member of the Oireachtas to come out as bisexual – Annie Hoey, Labour Party Senator in 2020.

Dáil

• First openly gay TDs – John Lyons (Labour Party TD) and Dominic Hannigan (Labour Party TD), both elected in 2011.
• First serving member of the Oireachtas to come out – Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael), Senator 2007–2011 and since 2016, TD 2011–2016, came out in April 2012.
• First openly lesbian TD – Katherine Zappone, Independent TD from 2016 to 2020.
• First openly gay TD elected in a by-election, and first openly gay Fianna Fáil TD – Malcolm Byrne, elected in November 2019, served until February 2020.
• First openly gay Social Democrats TD – Cian O'Callaghan, TD since February 2020. Previously first openly gay mayor of a city or county council in Ireland. Mayor of Fingal County Council in 2012.
• First openly gay Green Party TD – Roderic O'Gorman, TD since February 2020.
• First constituency to elect two openly gay TDs in the same election – Dublin West since February 2020, with O'Gorman and Varadkar.

Government

• First serving cabinet minister to come out – Leo Varadkar (Fine Gael TD), first elected in 2007, became a Minister in 2011, came out in 2015. Pat Carey (Fianna Fáil) who was a TD from 1997 to 2011, and served as a Minister from 2010 to 2011, came out in 2015 after his retirement.
• First openly lesbian serving cabinet Minister – Katherine Zappone, Minister from 2016 to 2020.
• First openly gay Taoiseach – Leo Varadkar (Fine Gael TD), Taoiseach from June 2017 to June 2020.
• First openly gay Tánaiste – Leo Varadkar (Fine Gael TD), Tánaiste since June 2020.
• First constituency to have two openly gay cabinet Ministers – Dublin West since June 2020; Leo Varadkar and Roderic O'Gorman.

Ethnic minorities

• First member of the Traveller community – Eileen Flynn, appointed to the Seanad in 2020

Party leaders

Party leaders serving 10 years or more:

Leader	Tenure	Party		Period	Constituency
Éamon de Valera	42y		Sinn Féin	1917–1926	East Clare Clare
			Fianna Fáil	1926–1959
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh	39y		Sinn Féin	1970–1983	Longford–Westmeath
			Republican Sinn Féin	1986–2009
Gerry Adams	35y		Sinn Féin	1983–2018	Belfast West Louth
William Norton	28y		Labour	1932–1960	Kildare
Tomás Mac Giolla	26y		Sinn Féin	1962–1970	Dublin West
			Official Sinn Féin	1970–1977
			Sinn Féin – The Workers' Party	1977–1982
			Workers' Party	1982–1988
Joseph Blowick	21y		Clann na Talmhan	1944–1965	Mayo South
W. T. Cosgrave	20y		Cumann na nGaedheal	1923–1933	Kilkenny City North Kilkenny Carlow–Kilkenny Cork Borough
			Fine Gael	1934–1944
Seán MacBride	19y		Clann na Poblachta	1946–1965	Dublin County
John Redmond	18y		Irish Parliamentary	1900–1918	Waterford City
Brendan Corish	17y		Labour	1960–1977	Wexford
Richard Mulcahy	15y		Fine Gael	1944–1959[lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 4]	Tipperary
Dick Spring	15y		Labour	1982–1997	Kerry North
Enda Kenny	15y		Fine Gael	2002–2017	Mayo West Mayo
Bertie Ahern	14y		Fianna Fáil	1994–2008	Dublin Finglas Dublin Central
Mary Harney	14y		Progressive Democrats	1993–2006 2007–2008	Dublin South-West Dublin Mid-West
Jack Lynch	13y		Fianna Fáil	1966–1979	Cork City
Charles Haughey	13y		Fianna Fáil	1979–1992	Dublin North-Central
Margaret Buckley	13y		Sinn Féin	1937–1950	None
Liam Cosgrave	12y		Fine Gael	1965–1977	Dún Laoghaire
John Bruton	11y		Fine Gael	1990–2001	Meath
Garret FitzGerald	10y		Fine Gael	1977–1987	Dublin South-East
Micheál Martin	10y		Fianna Fáil	2011–present	Cork South-Central

See also

• Families in the Oireachtas
• List of Irish politicians
• List of members of the Oireachtas imprisoned since 1923
• List of members of the Oireachtas imprisoned during the Irish revolutionary period
• List of women cabinet ministers of the Republic of Ireland
• List of women in Dáil Éireann
• List of women in Seanad Éireann
• Records of Irish heads of government since 1922

Footnotes

1. The office was called Parliamentary Secretary until 1978.
2. David Cullinane and Kathleen Funchion were both elected to the Dáil in 2016. They had been married from 2007 to 2013.
3. While Mulcahy was a member of the Seanad in 1944, Tom O'Higgins acted as parliamentary party leader.
4. Between 1948 and 1959, John A. Costello served as parliamentary leader.

References

1. "3. AN ROLLA. – Dáil Éireann (1st Dáil) – Tuesday, 21 January 1919". Houses of the Oireachtas (in Irish). Retrieved 23 March 2020.
2. "Nomination of Members of Government: Motion – Dáil Éireann (26th Dáil) – Wednesday, 13 November 1991". Houses of the Oireachtas. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
3. "Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (Resumed) – Dáil Éireann (26th Dáil) – Wednesday, 13 November 1991". Houses of the Oireachtas. Retrieved 24 August 2020. I wish to request leave of the House to withdraw the motion concerning nomination of Members of the Government which I moved today.

External links

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