Growing the Gaeltacht
Údarás na Gaeltachta boss Micheál Ó hÉanaigh has made protecting and promoting the Gaeltacht regions his life’s work. He sees their locations as opportunities to combine modern enterprise with living in some of the most beautiful places on earth
CV: Micheál Ó hÉanaigh
Role: chief executive, Údarás na Gaeltachta
Age:59
Lives: Galway
Family: married with two children aged 23 and 20
Favourite book: All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald
Favourite film: Good Will Hunting
Hobbies: reading, walking, history
The chief executive of Údarás na Gaeltachta, the state agency tasked with the economic, social and cultural development of the Irish-speaking regions, speaks with a faint Boston drawl. Micheál ...