For the American football coach, see Charles G. Flanagan. For the Major League Baseball player, see Charlie Flannigan.
Charles Flanagan
TD
Flanagan in 2022
Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence
Incumbent
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
Helen McEntee (Justice)
Roderic O'Gorman (Equality)
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
Incumbent
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
(1956-11-01) 1 November 1956 (age 67) Mountmellick, County Laois, Ireland
Political party
Fine Gael
Spouse
Mary Flanagan
(m. 1994)
Children
2
Parent
Oliver J. Flanagan (father)
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]
^"Charles Flanagan". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 19 April 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2009.
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