Fianna Fáil the largest Opposition party in both houses (Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann) of the Oireachtas, with party leader Micheál Martin entering into a confidence and supply arrangement with a Fine Gael-led minority government at the beginning of the 32nd Dáil. Fianna Fáil is a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and of Liberal International. The party is also organised in Northern Ireland and intends to run in local government elections there for the first time in 2019. Fianna Fáil was founded by Éamon de Valera, a former leader of Sinn Féin. He and a number of
Fianna Fáil Front Bench six sitting front bench TDs, including the deputy leader Mary Hanafin, were not re-elected. Positions also reflected the restructuring of government departments by the incoming Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition. In May 2016 Martin announced his third front bench. Fianna Fáil is the largest opposition party in the Dáil and therefore that party's leader takes the title Leader of the Opposition, a largely nominal role. The other parties that occupy the opposition benches include Sinn Féin and the United Left Alliance. The "Official Opposition" is viewed as the party tasked with keeping the government in check. It is also generally viewed