Fianna Fáil
Irish political party
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| 2024 | Becomes the largest party in the Dáil and leads the formation of a new government. |
| 2024 | Fianna Fáil receives 356,794 votes (20.44%), placing second and increasing seats by 2 in the European Parliament election. |
| 2024 | Fianna Fáil supports unsuccessful Irish constitutional referendums aimed at deleting a reference to women's domestic duties and broadening the definition of the family |
| 2023 | The Kevin Barry Cumann won the Gobnait O'Connell award at the Cork National Youth Conference. |
| September 2022 | SDLP leader Colum Eastwood announced the end of the partnership with Fianna Fáil. |
| 2021 | Donogh O'Malley Cumann wins their fourth Gobnait O'Connell Award for best Ógra branch, tying the record for most awards. |
| December 20 2021 | A motion to remove Bryan Mallon as president receives 62% support from members, but fails to pass as it did not reach the required 66.7% threshold. |
| October 2021 | Former Fianna Fáil TD Marc MacSharry suggested he was considering reviving the Independent Fianna Fáil party. |
| March 2021 | Bryan Mallon replaces Tom Cahill as president of Ógra Fianna Fáil. |
| 2020 | Front Bench configuration covers the period from 2016 to 2020, marking the end of this specific leadership and portfolio arrangement. |
| 2020 | Fianna Fáil agreed with Fine Gael and the Green Party to enter an unprecedented coalition, with the party leaders rotating between Taoiseach and Tánaiste roles. |
| 2019 | Donogh O'Malley Cumann wins their third Gobnait O'Connell Award for best Ógra branch. |
| 2019 | Fianna Fáil receives 277,705 votes (16.55%), placing second and reducing seats by 1, and joining the RE group. |
| November 2019 | Tom Cahill from Lawrencetown is elected as President (Uachtarán) of Ógra Fianna Fáil. |
| January 24 2019 | Fianna Fáil entered into a partnership with the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). |
| 2018 | The Pádraig Pearse Cumann (PPC) branch from Dublin City University was awarded best delegation at the Fianna Fáil National Youth Conference in Roscommon. |
| 2018 | Supported Michael D. Higgins as an independent candidate in the presidential election. |
| March 2018 | Ian Woods from Dún Laoghaire is elected president of Ógra Fianna Fáil. |
| 2016 | Micheál Martin appointed as Leader of Fianna Fáil and Leader of the Opposition during this Front Bench configuration. |
| 2016 | Fianna Fáil recovered to become the largest opposition party and entered a confidence and supply arrangement with a Fine Gael-led minority government. |
| November 2016 | James Doyle from Dublin Fingal is elected president of Ógra Fianna Fáil. |
| 2015 | Donogh O'Malley Cumann wins their second Gobnait O'Connell Award for best Ógra branch. |
| 2015 | Eamon Quinlan, the first president of Ógra, becomes mayor of Waterford City. |
| 2015 | Eoin Neylon is re-elected as president of Ógra Fianna Fáil for a second consecutive term. |
| 2014 | The Wolfe Tone Cumann first won the Gobnait O'Connell award. |
| 2014 | Kate Feeney is elected to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council while serving as president of Ógra. |
| 2014 | Eoin Neylon is elected president of Ógra Fianna Fáil for the first time. |
| 2014 | Micheál Martin leads Fianna Fáil to European Parliament election, receiving 369,545 votes (22.31%) and reducing seats by 2. |
| 2014 | At the party's Ard Fheis, a motion was passed to stand candidates for election in Northern Ireland for the first time in 2019. |
| June 24 2014 | Brian Crowley had the Fianna Fáil party whip withdrawn after his decision to leave the ALDE group. |
| June 23 2014 | MEP Brian Crowley announced his intention to sit with the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) instead of the ALDE group in the 8th term of the European Parliament. |
| 2013 | Kate Feeney becomes the first female leader of Ógra Fianna Fáil. |
| 2011 | Ógra Fianna Fáil changes its leadership structure, beginning to elect a president of the organization instead of being chaired by the youngest member of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party. |
| 2011 | Significant internal conflicts between candidates emerged during the run-up to the 2011 general election, further deteriorating the party's organizational integrity. |
| 2011 | Under Micheál Martin's leadership, Fianna Fáil experiences a significant electoral decline, winning only 17.5% of first preference votes and 57 seats, moving to the Opposition. |
| 2011 | Fianna Fáil's vote collapsed in the general election, ending in third place, which was widely seen as a political realignment following the post-2008 Irish economic downturn. |
| 2011 | Micheál Martin becomes party leader, succeeding Brian Cowen. |
| 2011 | Suffers its worst electoral defeat, losing 58 of 78 seats and dropping from largest to third-largest party in the Dáil. |
| 2010 | Fianna Fáil legalizes same-sex civil partnerships |
| June 2010 | Fianna Fáil opened its first official office in Northern Ireland, located in Crossmaglen, County Armagh, officially opened by Taoiseach Brian Cowen. |
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