TAOISEACH LEO VARADKAR has today appointed his Ministers of State, with others losing junior ministries they had previously held.
Varadkar had warned that there would be disappointments and there certainly were – with some losing jobs and expectant others not getting them.
Varadkar promoted a number of TDs to junior ministries for the first time. Here is your full list of Ministers of State, including four Super Juniors who will be allowed to sit at Cabinet (but not have a formal say in its business):
Super Junior Ministers
Joe McHugh (Donegal)
Mary Mitchell O’Connor (Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown)
Finian McGrath (Dublin Bay North)
Paul Kehoe (Wexford)
Junior Ministers
John Paul Phelan (Carlow/Kilkenny)
Damien English (Meath West)
Michael D’Arcy (Wexford)
Helen McEntee (Meath East)
Andrew Doyle (Wicklow)
Patrick O’Donovan (Limerick)
Seán Kyne (Galway West)
Jim Daly (West Cork)
Pat Breen (Clare)
Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central)
Ciarán Cannon (Galway East)
David Stanton (Cork East)
John Halligan (Independent Alliance – Waterford)
Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran (Independent Alliance – Longford/Westmeath)
Brendan Griffin (Kerry)
The Demoted List
Dara Murphy, a Coveney supporter from Cork, lost his position at the Department of Foreign Affairs where he served as the junior minister with responsibility for European Affairs.
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy has also lost her junior ministry in Health.
With reporting by Sinéad O’Carroll
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