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

Micheál Ó hÉanaigh Pic: Michael Dillon

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 ...