Editing Green Party (Ireland) (section)

====2024 onwards ====
At the [[2024 Irish local elections|2024 local elections]], the party lost almost half of its council seats across the country, although it topped the poll in four [[local electoral area]]s in [[2024 Dublin City Council election|Dublin City]]. At the [[2024 European Parliament election in Ireland|2024 European Parliament elections]], Ciarán Cuffe and Grace O'Sullivan both lost their seats, while in the [[Limerick mayoral election]], the party's candidate, Brian Leddin, won 2.89% of the vote and was eliminated on the fifth count.

On 18 June 2024, [[Eamon Ryan]] announced his resignation as party leader. Ryan also announced that he would not be seeking re-election as a TD for [[Dublin Bay South (Dáil constituency)|Dublin Bay South]] at the next general election.<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 June 2024 |title=Eamon Ryan steps down as Green Party leader after 13 years |url=https://www.greenparty.ie/news/eamon-ryan-steps-down-green-party-leader-after-13-years |access-date=2024-07-26 |website=Green Party}}</ref> Later the same day [[Catherine Martin (politician)|Catherine Martin]] announced her resignation as deputy leader and would not be seeking the leadership role.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lehane |first=Mícheál |date=18 June 2024 |title=Ryan and Martin to step down from Green Party leadership roles |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2024/0618/1455317-eamon-ryan/ |access-date=15 April 2025 |work=[[RTÉ News]]}}</ref> On 19 June, [[Roderic O'Gorman]] and Senator [[Pippa Hackett]] both announced that they would be seeking nominations for the leadership position.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 June 2024 |title=As it happened: Contest for Green Party leadership under way |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2024/0619/1455488-green-tracker/ |access-date=15 April 2025 |work=[[RTÉ News]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Lehane |first=Mícheál |date=20 June 2024 |title=Martin hopes to remain in role as Media Minister |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0620/1455656-green-party-leadership/ |access-date=15 April 2025 |work=[[RTE News]]}}</ref> On 8 July, O'Gorman was narrowly elected over Hackett with 51.89% of the vote.<ref name="leaderelection2024">{{cite news |last1=Finn |first1=Christina |date=8 July 2024 |title=Roderic O'Gorman has been elected as new leader of the Green Party, replacing Eamon Ryan |url=https://www.thejournal.ie/roderic-ogorman-green-party-leader-6430238-Jul2024/ |access-date=8 July 2024 |work=[[TheJournal.ie|The Journal]]}}</ref> On 14 July, Senator [[Róisín Garvey]] narrowly defeated [[Neasa Hourigan]] with 51% of the vote to become deputy leader.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Horgan-Jones |first=Jack |date=14 July 2024 |title=Senator Róisín Garvey elected as Green Party’s new deputy leader |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/07/14/senator-roisin-garvey-elected-as-green-partys-new-deputy-leader/ |access-date=26 July 2024 |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |language=en}}</ref>

At the [[2024 Irish general election|2024 general election]] the party retained one of their twelve seats, with party leader [[Roderic O'Gorman]] being elected.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sharkey |first=Kevin |date=1 December 2024 |title=Irish general election: Two-thirds of seats declared in tight three-way battle |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9373ew5yd9o |access-date=3 December 2024 |work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref> The party won 3% of the vote.<ref>{{Cite news |last=McQuinn |first=Cormac |date=1 December 2024 |title=Winners and losers in general election 2024 |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/12/01/winners-and-losers-in-general-election-2024/ |access-date=3 December 2024 |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |language=en}}</ref>