Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)

This is the first occasion on which I have been in the Chamber in the presence of Deputy Ring in his capacity as Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. While I have congratulated him outside the Chamber, I want to do so on the record. In his first 120 days in office, Irish sportspeople have won medals at the 2011 European Amateur Boxing Championships and at the Special Olympics World Games and I am sure the all-Ireland is only a few months ahead of us.

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