{"id":471244,"date":"2026-05-28T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471244\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:18:08","slug":"ffs-ardagh-appointed-minister-of-state-at-justice-dept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471244\/","title":{"rendered":"FF&#8217;s Ardagh appointed Minister of State at Justice Dept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fianna F\u00e1il TD Catherine Ardagh has been appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>The Dublin South-Central TD, who has also worked as a solicitor, was elected to the D\u00e1il in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>She had previously been elected to the Seanad.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick TD and Junior Minister Niall Collins will move from his current role in the Department of Justice to the Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2026\/0414\/1568232-healy-rae-resigns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">This is to fill the vacancy stemming from the resignation of Michael Healy-Rae following the fallout from the fuel protests last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet agreed the changes at an incorporeal meeting this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Ardagh will have responsibility for international law, law reform and youth justice.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Collins will oversee forestry, farm safety and horticulture at the Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fianna F\u00e1il TD Catherine Ardagh has been appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Justice. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-471244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}