Editing Green Party (Ireland) (section)

==Organisation==
The National Executive Committee is the organising committee of the party. It comprises the party leader Roderic O'Gorman, the deputy leader Róisín Garvey, the Cathaoirleach Pauline O'Reilly, the National Coordinator, the General Secretary (in a non-voting role), a Young Greens representative, the Treasurer and ten members elected annually at the party convention.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.greenparty.ie/en/about/structures |title=Structures of the Green Party |publisher=Greenparty.ie |date=28 March 2010 |access-date=1 January 2011  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110126014704/http://www.greenparty.ie/en/about/structures |archive-date=26 January 2011 }}</ref>

===Leadership===
====Party leader====
{|class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Portrait
! Period
! Constituency
|-
| No leader
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| 1981–2001
| N/A
|-
| [[Trevor Sargent]]
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| 2001–2007
| [[Dublin North (Dáil constituency)|Dublin North]]
|-
| [[John Gormley]]
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| 2007–2011
| [[Dublin South-East (Dáil constituency)|Dublin South-East]]
|-
| [[Eamon Ryan]]
| {{CSS image crop|Image =Eamon Ryan 2020 (cropped).jpg|bSize = 90|cWidth = 90|cHeight = 120|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| 2011–2024
| [[Dublin South (Dáil constituency)|Dublin South]]<br />[[Dublin Bay South (Dáil constituency)|Dublin Bay South]]
|-
| [[Roderic O'Gorman]]
| {{CSS image crop|Image =Roderic O'Gorman, November 2022 (headshot).jpg
|bSize = 90|cWidth = 90|cHeight = 120|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| 2024–present
| [[Dublin West (Dáil constituency)|Dublin West]]
|}

====Deputy leader====
{|class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Portrait
! Period
! Constituency
|-
| [[Mary White (Green Party politician)|Mary White]]
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| 2001–2011
| [[Carlow–Kilkenny (Dáil constituency)|Carlow–Kilkenny]] (2007–2011)
|-
|-
| [[Catherine Martin (politician)|Catherine Martin]]
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| 2011–2024
| [[Dublin Rathdown]] (2016–present)
|-
|-
| [[Róisín Garvey]]
| {{CSS image crop|Image =Róisín_Garvey,_March_2023_(cropped).jpg|bSize = 100|cWidth = 90 |cHeight = 120 |oTop = 0|oLeft = 5}}
| 2024–present
| [[Nominated members of Seanad Éireann|Nominated by Taoiseach]]
|-
|}

====Cathaoirleach====
{|class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Portrait
! Period
|-
| [[John Gormley]]
| {{CSS image crop|Image =John Gormley (cropped).jpg|bSize = 90|cWidth = 90|cHeight = 120|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| 2002–2007
|-
|-
| [[Dan Boyle (politician)|Dan Boyle]]
| {{CSS image crop|Image =Senator Dan Boyle, Cork South Central.jpg|bSize = 100|cWidth = 90 |cHeight = 120 |oTop = 0|oLeft = 5}}
| 2007–2011
|-
|-
| [[Roderic O'Gorman]]
| {{CSS image crop|Image =Roderic O'Gorman, November 2022 (headshot).jpg|bSize = 100|cWidth = 90 |cHeight = 120 |oTop = 0|oLeft = 5}}
| 2011–2019
|-
|-
| [[Hazel Chu]]
| {{CSS image crop|Image =Hazel Chu 2021 - 1 (cropped).jpg|bSize = 100|cWidth = 90 |cHeight = 120 |oTop = 0|oLeft = 5}}
| 2019–2021
|-
|-
| [[Pauline O'Reilly]]
| {{CSS image crop|Image =Pauline O'Reilly and parents, 2020 (cropped).jpg|bSize = 100|cWidth = 90 |cHeight = 120 |oTop = 0|oLeft = 5}}
| 2021–2025
|-
|-
| Janet Horner<ref name="Horner"/>
|
| 2025–present
|}
Note: Although Christopher Fettes chaired the party initially, the position of Cathaoirleach was not created until 2002.

===Leadership organisation===
The party did not have a national leader until 2001. At a special "Leadership Convention" in Kilkenny on 6 October 2001, Trevor Sargent was elected the first official leader of the Green Party while Mary White was elected deputy leader.<ref>{{cite news |last=Edwards |first=Elaine |date=4 July 2007 |title=White seeks Greens' deputy leadership |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/white-seeks-greens-deputy-leadership-1.809140 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716000211/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/white-seeks-greens-deputy-leadership-1.809140 |archive-date=16 July 2023 |access-date=24 January 2022 |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]}}</ref> Sargent was re-elected to his position in 2003 and again in 2005. The party's constitution requires that a leadership election be held within six months of a general election.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Leahy |first=Pat |date=30 June 2020 |title=Green Party to begin election hustings next week in leadership contest |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/green-party-to-begin-election-hustings-next-week-in-leadership-contest-1.4292009 |access-date=15 April 2025 |work=[[The Irish Times]] |quote=The party constitution requires that nominations for the leadership of the party be opened after a general election}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=28 June 2020 |title=Eamon Ryan confirms Green Party leadership contest will go ahead online |url=https://www.thejournal.ie/green-leadership-election-5135434-Jun2020/ |access-date=15 April 2025 |work=[[TheJournal.ie|The Journal]] |quote=Our party tradition or constitution says that we should have our leadership contest within six months of a general election.}}</ref>

Sargent resigned the leadership in the wake of the 2007 general election to the [[30th Dáil]]. During the campaign, Sargent had promised that he would not lead the party into Government with Fianna Fáil.<ref>{{cite news |author=Sheahan, Fionnan |date=24 February 2010 |title=Ethical minister hoist with own petard |url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ethical-minister-hoist-with-own-petard-2076456.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100227183242/http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ethical-minister-hoist-with-own-petard-2076456.html |archive-date=27 February 2010 |access-date=24 February 2010 |work=[[Irish Independent]] |publisher=}}</ref> At the election the party retained six Dáil seats, making it the most likely partner for Fianna Fáil. Sargent and the party negotiated a coalition government; at the 12 June 2007 membership meeting to approve the agreement, he announced his resignation as leader.

In the subsequent leadership election, John Gormley became the new leader on 17 July 2007, defeating [[Patricia McKenna]] by 478 votes to 263. Mary White was subsequently re-elected as the deputy Leader. Gormley served as Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government from July 2007 until the Green Party's decision to exit government in December 2010.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

Following the election defeats of 2011, Gormley announced his intention not to seek another term as Green Party leader. Eamon Ryan was elected as the new party leader, over party colleagues Phil Kearney and Cllr Malcolm Noonan in a postal ballot election of party members in May 2011. Monaghan-based former councillor Catherine Martin defeated Down-based [[John Barry (Green Party politician)|Dr John Barry]] and former Senator Mark Dearey to the post of deputy leader on 11 June 2011 during the party's annual convention. Roderic O'Gorman was elected party chairperson.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

The Green Party lost all its Dáil seats in the 2011 general election.<ref>{{cite news |date=28 February 2011 |title=FG looks to form Govt as final results emerge |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0227/election.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110227191146/http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0227/election.html |archive-date=27 February 2011 |access-date=27 February 2011 |work=[[RTÉ News]]}}</ref> Party Chairman Dan Boyle and Déirdre de Búrca were nominated by the Taoiseach to Seanad Éireann after the formation of the Fianna Fáil–Progressive Democrats–Green Party government in 2007, and Niall Ó Brolcháin was elected in December 2009. De Búrca resigned in February 2010, and was replaced by Mark Dearey. Neither Boyle nor O'Brolchain was re-elected to Seanad Éireann in the Seanad election of 2011, leaving the Green Party without Oireachtas representation until the 2016 general election, in which it regained two Dáil seats.

Ryan's leadership was challenged by deputy leader Catherine Martin in 2020 after the [[2020 Irish government formation|2020 government formation]]; he narrowly won a poll of party members, 994 votes (51.2%) to 946.<ref name="Dwyer">{{Cite news |last=Dwyer |first=Orla |date=23 July 2020 |title=Eamon Ryan retains position as Green Party leader after narrow victory over Catherine Martin |url=https://www.thejournal.ie/eamon-ryan-green-party-leader-5157710-Jul2020/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723204415/https://www.thejournal.ie/eamon-ryan-green-party-leader-5157710-Jul2020/ |archive-date=23 July 2020 |access-date=23 July 2020 |work=[[TheJournal.ie|The Journal]]}}</ref>

===Irish and European politics===
The Green Party is organised throughout the island of Ireland, with regional structures in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The [[Green Party Northern Ireland]] voted to become a regional partner of the Green Party in Ireland in 2005 at its annual convention, and again in a postal ballot in March 2006.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Emerson|first=Newton|date=7 May 2020|title=Why Northerners will take a big interest in all-Ireland Green Party|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/why-northerners-will-take-a-big-interest-in-all-ireland-green-party-1.4246472?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fopinion%2Fwhy-northerners-will-take-a-big-interest-in-all-ireland-green-party-1.4246472|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|access-date=22 September 2020|archive-date=24 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924173501/https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/why-northerners-will-take-a-big-interest-in-all-ireland-green-party-1.4246472?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fopinion%2Fwhy-northerners-will-take-a-big-interest-in-all-ireland-green-party-1.4246472|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Melaugh |first=Martin |date=24 May 2019 |title=Elections: A Selection of Political Party Manifestos |url=https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/politics/election/manifestos.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125220827/https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/politics/election/manifestos.htm |archive-date=25 November 2020 |access-date=22 September 2020 |website=[[Conflict Archive on the Internet]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-04-05 |title=BBC News – Profile: Green Party |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/northern_ireland/8589751.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302150728/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/northern_ireland/8589751.stm |archive-date=2022-03-02 |access-date=2023-04-01 |website=BBC News}}</ref> [[Brian Wilson (Northern Ireland politician)|Brian Wilson]], formerly a councillor for the [[Alliance Party of Northern Ireland|Alliance Party]], won the Green Party's first seat in the [[Northern Ireland Assembly]] in the [[2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election|2007 election]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Moloney |first=Eugene |date=10 March 2007 |title=Wilson scores coup with North's first Green seat |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/wilson-scores-coup-with-norths-first-green-seat/26269827.html |access-date=15 April 2025 |work=[[Irish Independent]]}}</ref> [[Steven Agnew]] later held that seat from the [[2011 Northern Ireland Assembly election|2011 election]] until his resignation in September 2019.<ref>{{Cite news |date=12 September 2019 |title=Steven Agnew: Former Green leader stepping down as MLA |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-49669590 |access-date=15 April 2025 |work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref>