ardfheis , auch: ard fheis

The position is elected by members of the party at the Ardfheis.

Supporters of abstentionism also claimed that the vote at the ardfheis was gerrymandered.

In October 1926 she represented Munster at the party's Ardfheis.

De Rossa called a Special Ardfheis (party conference) to debate changes to the constitution.

At the November 2011 Ardfheis, the members of éirígí elected the following individuals to the seven national positions:

He remained with Sinn Féin after it was re-constituted as a republican party at the 1917 Ardfheis.

At the October 1934 Sinn Féin ardfheis, she was elected one of the party's vice-presidents.

It was also the case that Sinn Féin had almost split between monarchists and republicans at its 1917 Ardfheis.

In 1979, a motion at the Ardfheis to remove the Sinn Féin prefix from the party name was narrowly defeated.

One of Boland's most famous incidents took place at the Fianna Fáil Ardfheis (party conference) in 1971.

At the 1950 Sinn Féin Ardfheis, Magan was elected honorary joint secretary of the party.

The 1983 ardfheis resolved to take seats in the European Parliament, as the 1985 ardfheis did for that year's local elections.

In protest, they staged a walkout from the ardfheis and reconvened the ardfheis at another venue.

Sinn Féin points out that a previous ardfheis in 1983 amended the constitution so that "no aspect of the constitution and rules be closed to discussion".

In 2011 the Waterfront hosted the Sinn Féin Ardfheis, the first time for it to be held in Belfast.

At its Ardfheis in January 1977, the Officials renamed themselves Sinn Féin The Workers Party.

Many political parties who use the term Ardfheis, also use the term Ard Chomhairle which means National Executive Committee.

At the 1917 Sinn Féin Ardfheis he and Austin Stack were elected Honorary Secretaries of the party.

The Ardfheis (national delegate conference) is the ultimate policy-making body of the party where delegates - directly elected by members of cumainn - can decide on and implement policy.

At the Fine Gael Ardfheis in March 2007 Kenny outlined his platform for the forthcoming general election entitled the "Contract for a Better Ireland".

This was done to enable the ardfheis to debate a motion to allow Sinn Féin candidates to stand in elections to the European Parliament and to take their seats if successful.

However, as the Ardfheis may have already been held in any given year by the time a new leader is elected, the selection of the new party president might not take place until the next year.

Mansfield's Citywest Hotel was built from scratch and established as the venue for the annual Fianna Fáil Ardfheis and for GAA functions.

In the Republic of Ireland, the Labour Party, Green Party, Communist Party, Renua Ireland and the Social Democrats do not use the term ardfheis.

In March 2009, he made an infamous appearance on RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock from the Fianna Fáil Ardfheis surrounded by members of the party glaring at the camera.

Similarly in relation to the last Ard Fheis debate on abortion.

At the February 1922 Ard Fheis, the officer board became the standing committee.

The following year the first Ard Fheis since 1940 was held in Dublin.

Seven individuals are directly elected to national positions at An Ard Fheis.

When the motion was put to the Ard Fheis, it failed to achieve the necessary two-thirds majority.

Neither do I want to gag the Ard Fheis on this or any other issue.

At an extraordinary ard fheis (conference), they voted to support the police and take places on the Policing Board.

Instead, a single vice-president was elected at the 1983 Ard Fheis to serve in place of the two former vice-presidents.

Danny Morrison expressed the mood at the 1981 Ard Fheis when he said:

This is quite unnecessary and merely gives the establishment media the opportunity of diverting public attention from more pertinent Ard Fheis issues.

At the 1910 Ard Fheis (party conference) attendance was poor and there was difficulty finding members willing to take seats on the executive.

But any decision to organise and contest elections in Northern Ireland would have to be taken at its party conference or Ard Fheis.

Griffith resigned the party leadership and presidency at that Ard Fheis, and was replaced by de Valera.

It held its first Ard Fheis in November 1947 in the Balalaika Ballroom.

Apparently Fianna Fail faces its Ard Fheis this weekend, with the support of only 10% of the population in the south.

The organization reaffirmed and also updated its key values/demands at its Ard Fheis on Saturday 29 November 2014.

They are set by the supporters of the party at the Ard Fheis [annual conference] and those rules are very clear and everybody understands them.

At an Ard Fheis, Fianna rejected the Treaty and called for all to still work for a Republic.

But after the St Andrews Agreement they decided to support them after a special Ard Fheis about the police on 28 January 2007.

Harrow IBRG had their Ard Fheis on 4th March.

On 25the March the Ard Fheis was held at the KoKo Centre in Coventry.

Edward Martyn, a cultural activist and playwright was selected as the first president at its first annual Ard Fheis on the 28 November 1905.

At the 1981 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis, Morrison made a famous speech in which he called for the party's constitution to be changed.

She joined Ógra Fianna Fáil aged fifteen and spoke at her first Ard Fheis two years later.

At the Ard Fheis, the leadership of Sinn Féin failed to attain the required two-thirds majority to change the party's position on abstentionism.