Mary Coughlan | |
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Tánaiste | |
In office 7 May 2008 – 9 March 2011 | |
Taoiseach | Brian Cowen |
Preceded by | Brian Cowen |
Succeeded by | Eamon Gilmore |
Deputy leader of Fianna Fáil | |
In office 7 May 2008 – 31 January 2011 | |
Leader | Brian Cowen |
Preceded by | Brian Cowen |
Succeeded by | Mary Hanafin |
Minister for Health and Children | |
In office 20 January 2011 – 9 March 2011 | |
Taoiseach | Brian Cowen |
Preceded by | Mary Harney |
Succeeded by | James Reilly (Health) Frances Fitzgerald (Children) |
Minister for Education and Skills | |
In office 23 March 2010 – 9 March 2011 | |
Taoiseach | Brian Cowen |
Preceded by | Batt O'Keeffe (Education and Science) |
Succeeded by | Ruairi Quinn |
Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment | |
In office 7 May 2008 – 23 March 2010 | |
Taoiseach | Brian Cowen |
Preceded by | Micheál Martin |
Succeeded by | Batt O'Keeffe (Enterprise, Trade and Innovation) |
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | |
In office 29 September 2004 – 7 May 2008 | |
Taoiseach | Bertie Ahern |
Preceded by | Joe Walsh (Agriculture and Food) |
Succeeded by | Brendan Smith |
Minister for Social and Family Affairs | |
In office 17 June 2002 – 29 September 2004 | |
Taoiseach | Bertie Ahern |
Preceded by | Dermot Ahern (Social, Community and Family Affairs) |
Succeeded by | Séamus Brennan |
Minister of State | |
2001–2002 | Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands |
Teachta Dála | |
In office February 1987 – February 2011 | |
Constituency | Donegal South-West |
Personal details | |
Born | Donegal, Ireland | 28 May 1965
Political party | Fianna Fáil |
Spouse |
David Charlton
(m. 1995; died 2012) |
Children | 2 |
Parent |
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Relatives | Clement Coughlan (uncle) |
Education | Ursuline College Sligo |
Alma mater | University College Dublin |
Mary Coughlan (born 28 May 1965) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as Tánaiste from 2008 to 2011, Deputy leader of Fianna Fáil from 2008 to 2011, Minister for Health and Children from January 2011 to March 2011, Minister for Education and Skills from 2010 to 2011, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment from 2008 to 2010, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food from 2004 to 2008, Minister for Social and Family Affairs from 2002 to 2004 and Minister of State for the Gaeltacht and the Islands from 2001 to 2002. She served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal South-West constituency from 1987 to 2011.[1]