section_path: Political views
section_name: Political views
paragraph_text: Political views
  
  In the early part of his career, Martin was considered to be a social conservative. However, after Martin altered his positions on abortion and same-sex marriage, it was considered that he had become more of a " centrist ". In 2023, Jack Sheehan of the Irish Times described Fianna Fáil and Martin by stating "for a decade now, a socially conservative, supposedly republican party has been led by a centrist social liberal with a more cautious position on Irish unification than even Leo Varadkar."