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Dermot Ahern is the Irish Minister for Communications,
Marine and Natural Resources. The DCMNR is responsible
for a number of sectors of the economy including telecommunications,
broadcasting, postal, ecommerce, marine, fisheries, aquaculture,
ports, exploration, mining, forestry, energy and renewable
resources.
Minister Ahern was born in Drogheda, Co. Louth in February
1955 and was educated in the Marist College, Dundalk,
University College, Dublin and the Incorporated Law
Society of Ireland (BCL) where he qualified as a Solicitor.
He was first elected to the Dail / Parliament in February,
1987. He was the Minister of State at the Department
of the Taoiseach with special responsibility as Government
Chief Whip and Minister of State at the Department of
Defence from November 1991 to February 1992, Minister
for Social, Community and Family Affairs from June 1997
to June 2002, and since then has been the Minister for
Communications, Marine and Natural Resources
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