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Simon Harris (born 17 October 1986) is an Irish Fine Gael politician serving as Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and Minister for Defence since January 2025, having previously served as Taoiseach from 2024 to 2025. He has been leader of Fine Gael since 2024 and a TD for the Wicklow constituency since 2011.
At 37, Harris is now set to be Ireland’s youngest Taoiseach, beating the record set by Varadkar, who was 38 when he assumed the role. Harris is expected to be installed by the Irish Parliament ...
DUBLIN (Reuters) -Simon Harris became Ireland's youngest ever prime minister on Tuesday, pledging to bring new ideas and energy to the less than 12 months he has boost the coalition government's ...
Lawmaker Simon Harris was elected Ireland's prime minister by a vote in parliament Tuesday, becoming at 37 the country’s youngest-ever leader. Harris takes over as head of Ireland’s three ...
The party leader is Simon Harris, who took up the role on 24 March 2024 after the resignation of Leo Varadkar. The deputy leader of Fine Gael is Helen McEntee , whom Harris appointed on 19 October 2024 after her predecessor, Heather Humphreys , declared she would not contest the 2024 general election .
It lasted 1 year, 114 days. Varadkar resigned as leader of Fine Gael on 20 March 2024 and was succeeded on 24 March by Simon Harris. Varadkar resigned as Taoiseach on 8 April. [6] The 34th government of Ireland (9 April 2024 to 23 January 2025) was led by Simon Harris as Taoiseach and Martin as Tánaiste. It has lasted 317 days to date.
Simon Harris was elected with 16,869 first preference votes, well above the quota.
Leo Varadkar was elected leader of Fine Gael in on 2 June 2017 and was appointed as Taoiseach on 14 June 2017. [4] At 38 years old he became the youngest person to hold the office, and Ireland's first openly gay head of government. [5] He later served as Tánaiste from 2020 to 2022 before becoming Taoiseach again in December 2022. [6] [7]