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About Micheál Martin
- Micheál Martin (Irish pronunciation: ['m?i?ça?l??]; born 1 August 1960) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as Leader of the Opposition in Ireland since March 2011 and Leader of Fianna Fáil since February 2011.
- He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central constituency since 1989.
- He previously served as 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.As Minister for Health and Children in 2004, he introduced a ban on tobacco smoking in all Irish workplaces and established the Health Service Executive (HSE).
- Ireland was the first country to introduce a full workplace smoking ban.
- As Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2009, Martin travelled to Latin America for the first time, and made the first official visit to Cuba by an Irish Minister.
- That same year, he travelled to Khartoum following the kidnapping of Sharon Commins and Hilda Kawuki.
- In 2010, he became the first Western foreign minister to visit Gaza since Hamas took control there in 2007.
- On 18 January 2011, Brian Cowen accepted his resignation as Minister for Foreign Affairs.
- On 26 January 2011, Fianna Fáil announced that Micheál Martin had been elected as the eighth leader of the party, following Cowen's resignation as party leader four days previously.
- In the 2011 general election, Martin led the party to its worst showing in its 85-year history, with a loss of 57 seats and a drop in its share of the popular vote to 17.4%.
- In the 2016 general election, Fianna Fáil's performance improved significantly, more than doubling their Dáil representation to 44 seats from 20 in 2011.
