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Centre Party of Ireland | |
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| Leader | Vacant[1] |
| Chairperson | Séamus Ó Riain |
| Founder | Lucinda Creighton |
| Founded | 13 March 2015 |
| Headquarters | 5 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, Ireland |
| Ideology | Anti-abortion[2][3][4] Christian democracy[5] Social conservatism[6] Economic liberalism[7] Soft Euroscepticism[8] |
| Political position | Right-wing[9][10] to far-right[11][12] |
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The Centre Party of Ireland, formerly Renua, is a fringe political party in Ireland.[13] The party was launched on 13 March 2015, with former Fine Gael TD Lucinda Creighton as founding leader.[14] Prior to its launch it had used the slogan Reboot Ireland. The name Renua was intended to suggest both the English Renew and the Irish Ré Nua "New Era".[15] The party changed its name to the Centre Party of Ireland in 2023.[16][17]
Renua was founded primarily by former members of Fine Gael who left that party because they refused to endorse Fine Gael's pro-choice stance in relation to abortion.[18] Before the 2016 Irish general election, Renua had 3 members of the Dáil through defections, however, afterwards it was left with no national representation as none of its election candidates were successful.[18] In the immediate aftermath, all its most prominent founder-members either returned to Fine Gael or left politics.[18] However, by virtue of securing over 2% of the national vote, Renua received significant funding from the state, which allowed the party to continue to exist in a diminished form.[19] The party has continued to contest both national and local elections in Ireland since 2016 but has met with little to no success, and currently has no elected representatives.[20] In parallel, since 2016 the party's ideology has shifted from its initial centre-right position to a hard-right one.[11][12]
- ^ Duffy, Rónán (11 June 2019). "Renua's leader quits the party, leaving it with no elected representatives". TheJournal.ie. Archived from the original on 11 June 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
- ^ "Renua Ireland to identify as anti-abortion party". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 17 November 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
- ^ "RENUA Ireland: 6 Pillars – Renua Ireland". Archived from the original on 9 December 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
- ^ "'It's time political parties get off the fence on abortion': Renua is now a pro-life party". 3 April 2017. Archived from the original on 9 December 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
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- ^ Sarah Bardon (30 March 2017). "Renua Ireland to identify as anti-abortion party". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 29 July 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
- ^ Renua Ireland to identify as anti-abortion party Archived 29 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine. The Irish Times. Published 30 March 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ Paul Taggart, Aleks Szczerbiak (21 May 2018). "Putting Brexit into perspective: the effect of the Eurozone and migration crises and Brexit on Euroscepticism in European states" (PDF). Journal of European Public Policy: 1200. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 July 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
- ^ "The Renua Project: How the party with real potential became a failed, fringe outfit – the Progressive Brief". Archived from the original on 18 July 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
- ^ "Innocence and Experience | Broadsheet.ie". 13 July 2020. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
- ^ a b "Election 2020: Far-right candidates put in dismal showing". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
- ^ a b Cunningham, Kevin (2 November 2021). "What's behind the emergence of the far right in Irish politics?". RTÉ. Archived from the original on 7 December 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
COVID-19 leafletswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Downing, John (13 March 2015). "Revealed: Lucinda's new party is called Renua Ireland". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 6 May 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ McGee, Harry (13 March 2015). "Renua: the making of a political party". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 16 November 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ McQuinn, Cormac (4 April 2023). "Renua changes name to Centre Party of Ireland". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
- ^ "Register of Political Parties" (PDF). Electoral Commission. 26 April 2023. p. 7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 April 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
- ^ a b c Leahy, Pat (18 June 2016). "Renua: The long, painful demise of a political party". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 1 December 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
- ^ McQuinn, Cormac (1 November 2018). "Renua boss paid €130,000 from State funds since taking helm". The Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 1 December 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
- ^ Power, Jack (3 December 2020). "Watchdog 'concerned' at Renua failure to account for State cash". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 1 December 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2022.