Galway man Kevin Keary has been elevated to full membership of European Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan’s cabinet in Brussels.
A graduate of NUI Galway and Lund University, Sweden, Keary began his Brussels career as adviser to Irish MEPs before moving on to the Commission after Hogan’s appointment in 2014. He joins Hogan’s mostly Irish cabinet headed by Peter Power and including Tom Tynan and Dermot Ryan.
Keary has big shoes to fill in replacing Shane Sutherland, who moves on to the EU joint research centre in Ispra Italy after 12 years’ service in three Irish cabinets. He started with Charlie McCreevey and continued with Maire Geoghegan Quinn prior to Hogan becoming Commissioner in 2014.
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Galway man Kevin Keary has been elevated to full membership of European Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan’s cabinet in Brussels.
A graduate of NUI Galway and Lund University, Sweden, Keary began his Brussels career as adviser to Irish MEPs before moving on to the Commission after Hogan’s appointment in 2014. He joins Hogan’s mostly Irish cabinet headed by Peter Power and including Tom Tynan and Dermot Ryan.
Keary has big shoes to fill in replacing Shane Sutherland, who moves on to the EU joint research centre in Ispra Italy after 12 years’ service in three Irish cabinets. He started with Charlie McCreevey and continued with Maire Geoghegan Quinn prior to Hogan becoming Commissioner in 2014.
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