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Rose Conway-Walsh: The ‘reasonable’ Republican who may be the next public expenditure minister
Sinn Féin’s new spokeswoman for public expenditure has been described as ‘more Fine Gael than Sinn Féin in terms of personal demeanour’ – which may help when she most probably takes over from Paschal Donohoe after the next election
Rose Conway-Walsh once said that if she wasn’t a politician, she would probably be an economist.
The Sinn Féin TD for Mayo got a little bit closer to combining both of those roles last week when Mary Lou McDonald appointed her as the party’s spokeswoman for public expenditure in a reshuffle.
That means Conway-Walsh will be shadowing Fine Gael heavyweight Paschal Donohoe, with the clear intention of taking over his ministerial role at the Department ...
