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Quiz: How well do you know Ireland's new Cabinet?

Ireland’s government was finally formed on Thursday.

ON THURSDAY, MICHEÁL Martin was once again appointed Taoiseach of Ireland – almost two months after the general election was held in November.

Ireland’s fifteen ministers are joined by four super-junior ministers who will also be forming part of Cabinet. 

Many of these ministers will be familiar faces, but some you may be less acquaintanced with – see how well you know the new Cabinet.

What is Peter Burke's ministry?
Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Enterprise, Tourism and Employment

Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport
Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Simon Harris is now Tánaiste - but he is also responsible for which of these?
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Education and Youth
Health

Finance
Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence
Jack Chambers has taken over which portfolio?
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Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Finance

Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Who is this newly appointed senior minister from Fine Gael?
Martin Heydon
Cathal Crowe

Niall Collins
Cormac Devlin
James Lawless has been promoted from junior minister for Transport to minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. What constituency does he represent?
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Kildare North
Dublin Bay South

Galway East
Waterford
Patrick O'Donovan has been appointed Minister for Communications, Arts and Culture. Is he Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael?
Fianna Fáil
Fine Gael
Darragh O'Brien has moved from his previous position as Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to which new brief?
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Children, Disability and Equality
Finance

Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Transport and the Environment
Which TD landed the role of Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration?
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Dara Calleary
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Jim O'Callaghan

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Colm Burke
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Seán Fleming
Fine Gael's Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has been given the Health brief, replacing the felled Stephen Donnelly. What constituency does she represent?
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Dublin Central
Dublin Rathdown

Dublin South-Central
Dún Laoghaire
Which of these Ministers of State will NOT be attending Cabinet?
Thomas Byrne
Noel Grealish

Hildegarde Naughton
Seán Canney
Answer all the questions to see your result!
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Micheál Martin
You may as well have appointed Cabinet yourself
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Simon Harris
Tánaiste and to-be Taoiseach (in a few years)
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    Mute David Cotter
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    Jan 26th 2025, 10:03 PM

    You don’t need to know them to realise their out for themselves and their friends….

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    Mute Johnny Wilson
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    Jan 26th 2025, 11:00 PM

    @David Cotter: yawn

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    Mute thomas molloy
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    Jan 26th 2025, 11:25 PM

    @David Cotter: Instant negativity without giving them a chance shows you may be just. Negative

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    Jan 26th 2025, 11:42 PM

    @thomas molloy: wtf. They’ve been around years mehole is there since 1998..and these party’s have 100 odd years of power between them
    Ans straight outa the gate the make lowery kingpin…..it’s pathetic

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    Jan 27th 2025, 12:12 AM

    @David Cotter: and who would you let run the country that you think will make such a substantial difference. Maybe you should run, you seem to have all the answers. Simpletons all over the world think they know it all & next thing you have the likes of trump in charge causing a total mess.

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    Jan 27th 2025, 12:18 AM

    @David Glynn: well David for one I wouldn’t let lowery boss around the place doing grubby deals and getting a one term TD the ceann job. You’d agree whit that for sure?

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    Mute Jose mourinho
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    Jan 27th 2025, 9:47 AM

    @David Cotter: 100% correct. Wait for the corruption scandals to start emerging now that the FFG crime enterprise proved they will break laws and violate public office ethics with impunity, without any consequences!

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    Mute Willie Marty
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    Jan 27th 2025, 10:57 AM

    @Johnny Wilson: take a nap johnny

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    Mute Darragh Mcnamara
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    Jan 26th 2025, 10:11 PM

    That you can be friends with Dennis O’Brien, break laws and get into government

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    Mute and the hit's just keep coming
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    Jan 26th 2025, 10:18 PM

    Evokes memories of spitting image for the 80s …. With puppets sitting around the table

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    Jan 27th 2025, 8:29 AM

    @Harry Paisley: up all night sniffing glue and praying under the Queens picture again Harry? I see you, the shinners are rent free in your brain, poor soul.

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    Mute Sea Spirit
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    Jan 26th 2025, 10:57 PM

    Jack Chambers like ffs??

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    Mute Willie Marty
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    Jan 26th 2025, 11:04 PM

    Would you look at the two lads at the head of the table..They shouldnt be left in charge of a piss up in a brewery not to mind the country.As for the motley crew behind them God help us all.

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    Jan 26th 2025, 11:38 PM

    @Róisín Flemping-Bunt-Himmler: you certainly can and would you look at the lad behind Harris straining his neck out to get his snout into the trough Patrick Donovan or curly Pa as we call him around these parts.

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    Jan 27th 2025, 3:17 AM

    @Róisín Flemping-Bunt-Himmler: and what about lady behind Micky Martin with the fancy two syllableq name who barely made it in in Galway East now in a top tier job at the top table.God give me patience.

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    Mute Bryan
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    Jan 26th 2025, 10:05 PM

    Irish politicians. The most forgiving profession in the world.

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    Jan 26th 2025, 10:46 PM

    I know ,you know ,we know , dogs on the streets know, but unfortunately you keep elect most of them !

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    Jan 26th 2025, 11:28 PM

    Any of them interviewed so far seem to have a serious interest in doing their sincere best.

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    Mute Brian Hunt
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    Jan 26th 2025, 11:22 PM

    “By their deeds, shall ye know them”

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    Jan 26th 2025, 11:50 PM

    Its like going to the STD clinic and being asked by the doctor do ya know which one is which……at the end of the day we will lose as taxpayers like we always do. So get lots of cream folks cos this is gonna be a dodgy 5 years

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    Jan 26th 2025, 10:10 PM

    And they’re off !

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    Jan 26th 2025, 11:56 PM

    Look they were voted in . Irish people spoke ff and fg can do no wrong and that what one problem is with politics in Ireland. Nepotism is bigger one

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    Mute Brian
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    Jan 26th 2025, 10:55 PM

    “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering”.. Paulo Coelho

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    Jan 26th 2025, 11:39 PM

    The Court of owls at a Spectre committee meeting. I know them all as vanity villains.

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    Jan 26th 2025, 11:01 PM

    @Chop Chop: no mirrors at home ?

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    Jan 27th 2025, 7:50 AM

    Crazy how much you Irish revere these criminally corrupt people, I suppose the gaping ideological wound left by the abandonment of the church has left ye all running to the closet authority figure so you can ‘think’ pathetic and explains a lot why the country is in such shambles with everyone ignoring it. Yalls new religion is politico ‘In Dail Eireann we trust’ absolutely pathetic

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    Jan 27th 2025, 7:45 AM

    Criminally corrupt disgusting so called public representatives the damage this crowd has caused will be felt for a very long time and the arrogance to boot, there fooked anyways US money is gonna be pulled out fast will make 2008 look like lost change

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    Jan 26th 2025, 11:25 PM

    @Chop Chop: A rogues gallery!

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    Jan 27th 2025, 6:02 AM

    To fkn well

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