Micheál Martin

**Micheál Martin** (; born 16 August 1960) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who is serving as Taoiseach since 2025. He held this office before from 2020 to 2022. He was the Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Minister for Defence from 2022 to 2025. He has been Leader of Fianna Fáil since January 2011. He was Leader of the Opposition in Ireland from 2011 to 2020, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2011 and Minister for Health and Children from 2000 to 2004. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork South-Central since 1989.

Martin has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central constituency since 1989. He was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2011, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment from 2004 to 2008, Minister for Health and Children from 2000 to 2004, Minister for Education and Science from 1997 to 2000 and Lord Mayor of Cork from 1992 to 1993.

## Other websites

- Micheál Martin's page on the Fianna Fáil website
- Profile of Martin's tenure as Minister for Health

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **embed**: yes
- **office8**: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- **taoiseach8**: Himself
- **term label8**: Acting
- **term start8**: 21 August 2020
- **term end8**: 2 September 2020
- **predecessor8**: Dara Calleary
- **successor8**: Charlie McConalogue
- **taoiseach9**: Himself
- **term label9**: Acting
- **term start9**: 14 July 2020
- **term end9**: 15 July 2020
- **predecessor9**: Barry Cowen
- **successor9**: Dara Calleary
- **office10**: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- **taoiseach10**: Bertie Ahern
- **term start10**: 29 September 2004
- **term end10**: 7 May 2008
- **predecessor10**: Mary Harney
- **successor10**: Mary Coughlan (politician), Mary Coughlan
- **office11**: Minister for Health (Ireland), Minister for Health and Children
- **taoiseach11**: Bertie Ahern
- **term start11**: 27 January 2000
- **term end11**: 29 September 2004
- **predecessor11**: Brian Cowen
- **successor11**: Mary Harney
- **office12**: Minister for Education (Ireland), Minister for Education and Science
- **taoiseach12**: Bertie Ahern
- **term start12**: 26 June 1997
- **term end12**: 27 January 2000
- **predecessor12**: Niamh Bhreathnach
- **successor12**: Michael Woods (Irish politician), Michael Woods


## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-suffix**: Teachta Dála, TD
- **image**: Micheál Martin - 9th April 2024 02.jpg
- **alt**: Portrait Photograph of Martin
- **caption**: Martin in 2024
- **order**: 15th
- **office**: Taoiseach
- **president**: Michael D. Higgins
Catherine Connolly
- **1blankname**: Tánaiste
- **1namedata**: Simon Harris
- **term start**: 23 January 2025
- **predecessor**: Simon Harris
- **president1**: Michael D. Higgins
- **1blankname1**: Tánaiste
- **1namedata1**: Leo Varadkar
- **term start1**: 27 June 2020
- **term end1**: 17 December 2022
- **predecessor1**: Leo Varadkar
- **successor1**: Leo Varadkar
- **office2**: Tánaiste
- **term start2**: 17 December 2022
- **term end2**: 23 January 2025
- **predecessor2**: Leo Varadkar
- **successor2**: Simon Harris
- **office3**: Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ireland), Minister for Foreign Affairs
- **term start3**: 17 December 2022
- **term end3**: 23 January 2025
- **predecessor3**: Simon Coveney
- **successor3**: Simon Harris
- **taoiseach4**: Brian Cowen
- **term start4**: 7 May 2008
- **term end4**: 18 January 2011
- **predecessor4**: Dermot Ahern
- **successor4**: Brian Cowen (acting)
- **office5**: Minister for Defence (Ireland), Minister for Defence
- **term start5**: 17 December 2022
- **term end5**: 23 January 2025
- **predecessor5**: Simon Coveney
- **successor5**: Simon  Harris
- **office6**: Leader of Fianna Fáil
- **1blankname6**: Leader of Fianna Fáil#Deputy leaders, Deputy
- **1namedata6**: Jack Chambers (politician), Jack Chambers
- **term start6**: 2011 Fianna Fáil leadership election, 26 January 2011
- **predecessor6**: Brian Cowen
- **office7**: Leader of the Opposition (Ireland), Leader of the Opposition
- **term start7**: 9 March 2011
- **term end7**: 27 June 2020
- **predecessor7**: Enda Kenny
- **successor7**: Mary Lou McDonald
- **office13**: Lord Mayor of Cork
- **term start13**: 20 June 1992
- **term end13**: 21 June 1993
- **predecessor13**: Denis Cregan
- **successor13**: John Murray
- **office14**: Teachta Dála
- **term start14**: 1989 Irish general election, June 1989
- **constituency14**: Cork South-Central (Dáil constituency), Cork South-Central
- **birth place**: Cork (city), Cork, Ireland
- **party**: Fianna Fáil
- **children**: 5, including Micheál Martin (Gaelic footballer), Micheál
- **education**: Coláiste Chríost Rí
- **alma mater**: University College Cork