Sinn Féin announced their team for the next General Election in a front-bench reshuffle.
A midlands TD is getting a new department in the Sinn Féin reshuffle.
The party has announced their team for the next General Election, and Longford Westmeath Deputy Sorca Clarke is moving to the front-bench and taking on the Education portfolio.
Deputy Clarke had previously been the party's Defence spokesperson.
Party Leader Mary Lou McDonald says Sorca Clarke has been an 'outstanding' spokesperson for the department.
Following the reshuffle, here's how Sinn Féin pans out:
Party Leader: Mary Lou McDonald
Finance: Pearse Doherty
Health: David Cullinane
Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Eoin Ó Broin
Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Louise O’Reilly
Environment and Climate Action: Darren O’Rourke
Foreign Affairs and Defence: Matt Carthy
Justice: Pa Daly
Public Expenditure and Reform: Rose Conway-Walsh
Education: Sorca Clarke
Higher Education, Innovation and Science: Mairéad Farrell
Agriculture, Food (and Rural Affairs): Claire Kerrane
Communications and Transport: Martin Kenny
Social Protection: Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
Youth and Integration: John Brady
Childcare: Kathleen Funchion
Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, Media: Imelda Munster
SF Chief Whip and Fisheries and the Marine: Pádraig MacLochlainn
An Gaeltacht, Gaeilge agus Cultúr: Aengus Ó Snodaigh
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