President of Ireland

The President of Ireland (Irish: Uachtarán na hÉireann ) is the head of state of Ireland. It is mostly ceremonial and elections are held every seven years, a person can be elected for up to two terms. The current President of Ireland is Catherine Connolly.

Duties
 Appoints the government: The President formally appoints the Taoiseach (head of government) and other ministers, and accepts their resignations. 
 Signs bills into law: The President cannot veto a bill that the Dáil and the Seanad have adopted.
 Power of pardon: The President, on the advice of the Government, has "the right of pardon and the power to commute or remit punishment".Constitution of Ireland: Article 13.6
 The President is ex officio President of the Irish Red Cross Society.Red Cross Act, 1944 Irish Statute Book
 The President appoints, on the advice of the Government, the Senior Professors and chairman of the council of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies;

List of presidents of Ireland

The functions of the President were exercised by the Presidential Commission from the coming into force of the Constitution on 29 December 1937 until the election of Douglas Hyde in 1938, and during the vacancies of 1974, 1976, and 1997.

  Portrait Name Previous service Term of office Nominated by Election Took office Left office Time in office1 Douglas HydeSenator25 June 193824 June 1945 7 yearsFianna Fáil1938Fine Gael2 Seán T. O'KellyTánaiste25 June 194524 June 1959 14 yearsFianna Fáil1945Himself19523 Éamon de ValeraTaoiseach25 June 195924 June 1973 14 yearsFianna Fáil1959Himself19664  Erskine Hamilton Childers Tánaiste25 June 197317 November 1974 Fianna Fáil19735 Chief Justice of Ireland19 December 197422 October 1976 All-party nomination19746 Patrick HilleryEuropean Commissioner for Social Affairs3 December 19762 December 1990 14 yearsFianna Fáil1976Himself19837 Mary RobinsonSenator3 December 199012 September 1997Labour1990Workers' Party8 Mary McAleeseReid Professor of Criminal law, Criminology and Penologyat Trinity College Dublin11 November 199710 November 2011 14 yearsFianna Fáil1997Progressive DemocratsHerself20049 Michael D. HigginsMinister for Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht11 November 201110 November 2025 14 yearsLabour2011 Himself201810Catherine ConnollyLeas-Cheann Comhairle11 November 2025IncumbentSinn Fein2025Social DemocratsLabourPBP–SolidarityGreen Party100% RedressIndependents

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