Charles Flanagan | |
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![]() Flanagan in 2022 | |
Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence | |
Assumed office 15 September 2020 | |
Preceded by | Brendan Smith |
Minister for Justice and Equality | |
In office 14 June 2017 – 27 June 2020 | |
Taoiseach | Leo Varadkar |
Preceded by | Frances Fitzgerald |
Succeeded by |
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Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade | |
In office 11 July 2014 – 14 June 2017 | |
Taoiseach | Enda Kenny |
Preceded by | Eamon Gilmore |
Succeeded by | Simon Coveney |
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs | |
In office 8 May 2014 – 11 July 2014 | |
Taoiseach | Enda Kenny |
Preceded by | Frances Fitzgerald |
Succeeded by | James Reilly |
Chair of the Fine Gael parliamentary party | |
In office 9 March 2011 – 8 May 2014 | |
Leader | Enda Kenny |
Preceded by | Pádraic McCormack |
Succeeded by | Dan Neville |
Teachta Dála | |
Assumed office February 2020 | |
In office May 2007 – February 2016 | |
In office February 1987 – May 2002 | |
Constituency | Laois–Offaly |
In office February 2016 – February 2020 | |
Constituency | Laois |
Personal details | |
Born | Mountmellick, County Laois, Ireland | 1 November 1956
Political party | Fine Gael |
Spouse |
Mary Flanagan (m. 1994) |
Children | 2 |
Parent |
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Alma mater | University College Dublin |
Charles Flanagan (born 1 November 1956) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Laois–Offaly constituency since 2020, and previously from 1987 to 2002, 2007 to 2016 and from 2016 to 2020 for the Laois constituency. He was appointed Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in September 2020. He previously served as Minister for Justice and Equality from 2017 to 2020, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade from 2014 to 2017, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs from May to July 2014 and Chair of the Fine Gael parliamentary party from 2011 to 2014.[1]