Simon Harris
Simon Harris (born 17 October 1986) is an Irish Fine Gael politician serving as Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael since 2024. A TD for the Wicklow constituency since 2011, he served as a minister of state from 2014 to 2016 and as a minister since 2016.Born in Greystones, Harris was elected to Wicklow County Council in the 2009 local elections. He was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2011 general election, becoming the "baby of the Dáil" at age 24, and was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Finance in 2014. Following the formation of a Fine Gael minority government in 2016, he was appointed Minister for Health. On the formation of the coalition government in 2020, he was appointed Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. From December 2022 to June 2023, he also served as Minister for Justice during the maternity leave of Cabinet colleague Helen McEntee.
After Leo Varadkar resigned in March 2024, Harris was the only candidate in the 2024 Fine Gael leadership election. Appointed Taoiseach on 9 April 2024 at age 37, he became the youngest holder of the office in the state's history. Due to his aptitude for social media, he has been dubbed the "TikTok Taoiseach". Provided by Wikipedia
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8by Dean B Everett, Jennifer Cornick, Brigitte Denis, Claire Chewapreecha, Nicholas Croucher, Simon Harris, Julian Parkhill, Stephen Gordon, Enitan D Carrol, Neil French, Robert S Heyderman, Stephen D BentleyGet full text
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9by Louis Grandjean, Robert H Gilman, Tomatada Iwamoto, Claudio U Köser, Jorge Coronel, Mirko Zimic, M Estee Török, Diepreye Ayabina, Michelle Kendall, Christophe Fraser, Simon Harris, Julian Parkhill, Sharon J Peacock, David A J Moore, Caroline ColijnGet full text
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10by Marian Price-Carter, Rudiger Brauning, Geoffrey W. de Lisle, Paul Livingstone, Mark Neill, Jane Sinclair, Brent Paterson, Gillian Atkinson, Garry Knowles, Kevin Crews, Joseph Crispell, Rowland Kao, Suelee Robbe-Austerman, Tod Stuber, Julian Parkhill, James Wood, Simon Harris, Desmond M. CollinsGet full text
Published 2018-10-01
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11by Eike J. Steinig, Sebastian Duchene, D. Ashley Robinson, Stefan Monecke, Maho Yokoyama, Maisem Laabei, Peter Slickers, Patiyan Andersson, Deborah Williamson, Angela Kearns, Richard V. Goering, Elizabeth Dickson, Ralf Ehricht, Margaret Ip, Matthew V. N. O’Sullivan, Geoffrey W. Coombs, Andreas Petersen, Grainne Brennan, Anna C. Shore, David C. Coleman, Annalisa Pantosti, Herminia de Lencastre, Henrik Westh, Nobumichi Kobayashi, Helen Heffernan, Birgit Strommenger, Franziska Layer, Stefan Weber, Hege Vangstein Aamot, Leila Skakni, Sharon J. Peacock, Derek Sarovich, Simon Harris, Julian Parkhill, Ruth C. Massey, Mathew T. G. Holden, Stephen D. Bentley, Steven Y. C. TongGet full text
Published 2019-11-01
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