Simon Harris | Facts, Biography, & Taoiseach | Britannica
WEB5 days ago · Simon Harris (born October 17, 1986, Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland) is an Irish politician who, on April 9, 2024, became the youngest taoiseach (prime minister) in the country’s history. Harris is also the leader of Ireland’s Fine Gael party.
Simon Harris: Profile of a man in a hurry to the top - BBC News
WEBSimon Harris, now 37, organised his first political meeting when he was a 16-year-old schoolboy. Simon Harris is set to replace Leo Varadkar, not only as taoiseach but also as the youngest...
Simon Harris - Wikipedia
WEBHarris was educated at St David's Holy Faith Secondary School in Greystones, where he was active in drama and was head boy. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] At the age of 13, he had written a play. [ 15 ] He first became involved in local politics as a fifteen-year-old when he set up the North Wicklow Triple A Alliance to help the families of children with autism ...
Simon Harris's Parents On His Very Normal Upbringing - EVOKE
WEBApr 9, 2024 · Unlike his predecessors and the other leaders in the Dail, Simon grew up in a non-political family, went to a public school, and was only inspired into public life by a desire to help his younger brother Adam, who was …
Simon Harris: Profile of a man in a hurry to the top - BBC
WEBMar 24, 2024 · As a schoolboy, Mr Harris attended St David's Holy Faith Secondary School in Greystones before beginning a degree in journalism and French at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT).
Simon Harris Just Became Ireland’s Prime Minister. Who Is He?
WEBApr 9, 2024 · Simon Harris was three years into a university degree when he dropped out in 2008. A job had come up as a parliamentary assistant to an Irish senator, and Mr. Harris, an ambitious 20-year-old...
Simon Harris: The five career moves that led him to the …
WEBApr 6, 2024 · 1. From drama student to political activist. Harris began plotting at the age of 13, though not yet in the political sense. Not long out of primary school, he wrote and directed a play he...
Simon Harris: From 'articulate' teen to Taoiseach-in-waiting - RTÉ
WEBMar 25, 2024 · Simon Harris's first venture into the world of campaigning was as a teenager. In 2002, he spoke to the RTÉ 'Open House' programme about an autism awareness charity he had set up, Triple A...
Simon Harris: Ireland’s ‘accidental politician’ who plotted a path …
WEBMar 24, 2024 · Simon Harris has described himself as an “accidental politician”, but his meteoric rise to become Ireland’s youngest taoiseach has been meticulously planned.
Enoch Burke: Jailed teacher's dad disrupts taoiseach's campaign - BBC
WEBJun 3, 2024 · The group, including the jailed teacher’s father Seán Burke and two others, heckled Simon Harris while he was on a walkabout in Castlebar and later in Westport on Sunday.