List of ambassadors of Ireland to Spain
List of representatives

List of ambassadors of Ireland to Spain

Section Title: List of representatives
Table Section Text: None

designated/Diplomatic accreditation	Ambassador	Observations	Taoiseach	List of Prime Ministers of Spain	Term end

1935	Leopold H. Kerney	Éamon de Valera	Niceto Alcalá Zamora	1946

1946	John Aloysius Belton	Éamon de Valera	Francisco Franco	1949

1949	Leo McCauley	John A. Costello	Francisco Franco	1955

1955	Michael Andrew Lysaght Rynne	(1899-1981)	John A. Costello	Francisco Franco	1962

1962	Timothy Joseph Horan	Seán Lemass	Francisco Franco	1967

1967	James Wilfrid Lennon	Jack Lynch	Francisco Franco	1970

1970	Brian Gallagher (Irish diplomat)	Jack Lynch	Francisco Franco	1974

1974	Charles Whelan (Irish diplomat)	Liam Cosgrave	Carlos Arias Navarro	1978

1978	Denis Holmes	Jack Lynch	Adolfo Suárez	1983

1983	Gearóid O Clérigh	Charles J. Haughey	Felipe González	1988

1988	Patrick Walshe (Irish diplomat)	Charles J. Haughey	Felipe González	1994

1994	Richard Ryan (diplomat)	John Bruton	Felipe González	1998

1998	Pádraig Murphy	Bertie Ahern	José María Aznar	2001

2001	Declan O’Donovan	Bertie Ahern	José María Aznar	2005

2005	Peter Gunning (Irish diplomat)	Bertie Ahern	José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero	2009

2009	Justin Harman	Brian Cowen	José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero	2014

September 2014	David J. Cooney	Enda Kenny	Mariano Rajoy

September 2017	Síle Maguire	Leo Varadkar	Mariano Rajoy

Sentence(s)

Timothy Joseph Horan became Irish Ambassador to Spain in 1962, a post he held for five years.

final_sentence: Timothy Joseph Horan became Irish Ambassador to Spain in 1962, a post he held for five years.