Crossword clues for taoiseach
taoiseach
Wiktionary
n. Head of the Irish government, comparable to a UK or Australian Prime Minister.
Wikipedia
The Taoiseach (, -shəkh, pl. Taoisigh , -shee) is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland. The Taoiseach is appointed by the President upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (parliament), and must, in order to remain in office, retain the support of a majority in the Dáil.
The current Taoiseach is Enda Kenny, TD, who was appointed on 9 March 2011. On 10 March 2016, at the first sitting of the 32nd Dáil Kenny failed to gain the support of the house and tendered his resignation to the President. He remained in office in an acting capacity until being re-elected on 6 May 2016.
The word means "chieftain" or "leader" in Irish and was adopted in the 1937 Constitution of Ireland as the title of the prime minister.
Usage examples of "taoiseach".
He remained cordially dislikedand, to an extent, fearedby much of the political establishment and, above all, by the present Taoiseach, a certain Joseph Patrick Delaney.
The Taoiseach is going to have to ask for an apology from the British government, and some form of compensation for their families, and the whole peace process is going to be knocked back months, or even years.
Shaun Cushin, with a great examination in the Irish before him that would tax the bottomless learning of the Taoiseach himself, to concern himself with chasing after a rabble of foreigners and gaoling them for stealing a goose or a hen or a handful of eggs.
I fail to see the attraction in working for a bent machine politician like our Taoiseach.