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Joe McHugh (Joseph McHugh) was born on 16 July, 1971 in Carrickart, Ireland. Discover Joe McHugh's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 53 years old?

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Age 53 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 16 July, 1971
Birthday 16 July
Birthplace Carrigart, County Donegal, Ireland
Nationality Ireland

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His wife is Olwyn Enright (m. 2005)

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2018

On 13 October 2018, he was nominated as Minister for Education and Skills by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, subject to approval by the Dáil. He was appointed as Minister for Education and Skills on 16 October 2018.

2017

The couple's visit to Glenveagh National Park during the trip is accredited with driving up visitor numbers to record levels in 2017.

2016

In February 2016, McHugh was heavily criticised for allocating 93 percent of Gaeltacht grants to the Donegal Gaeltacht, which is located in and beside his constituency. This revelation led to calls for McHugh to appear before the Public Account's Committee of Dáil Éireann, in order to explain such a disproportionate allocation of funding. McHugh subsequently denied the claims.

At the 2016 general election, after a redrawing of constituency boundaries, McHugh was elected to the new five-seater Donegal constituency on the 11th count.

2014

On 15 July 2014, he was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, with responsibility for Gaeltacht Affairs and Natural Resources. His appointment was met with criticism as his knowledge of the Irish language was at a basic level, although he subsequently received praise for his efforts to improve his language skills to the point where he could conduct lengthy interviews in the language. RTÉ Radio 1 created the radio documentary Fine Gaeilgeoir, narrated and produced by Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh, following McHugh's efforts to improve his Irish over the course of a year. The appointment of a non-Irish speaker to a Gaeltacht ministry has since become known as a "Joe McHugh moment", with Shane Ross having written of having his own in May 2016.

2011

In January 2011, McHugh called for a monument, funded by the government, in Donegal, dedicated to the founding of the Ulster Volunteer Force in 1912. McHugh was criticised by Eileen Doherty, a sister of Donegal County Councillor Eddie Fullerton, who was assassinated by loyalists in 1991. Doherty claimed McHugh and other Fine Gael councillors in Donegal had snubbed a number of commemorative events and opposed the building of a monument in Fullerton's memory in Buncrana. Fullerton was the third elected official in the Republic of Ireland to be assassinated.

In Manchester in October 2011, McHugh became the first Fine Gael TD to address delegates from the British Conservative Party. He described it as an "opportunity."

2007

After a surprise poll-topping victory in Donegal North-East, where he captured 22.6 percent of the first preference vote, McHugh was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2007 general election. His wife Olwyn Enright also won re-election to the Dáil, making them the third married couple to be elected to sit in the same Dáil. McHugh was appointed party deputy Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and the Department of the Taoiseach, with special responsibility for North-South Co-operation in October 2007. McHugh was re-elected to the Dáil at the 2011 general election, attaining 19.3% of the first-preference vote.

2006

He was elected to Seanad Éireann for the Administrative Panel in 2002, where he served as Fine Gael Spokesperson on Community, Rural, Gaeltacht and Marine Affairs. McHugh set up a full-time constituency office in Letterkenny. When Fine Gael chose him as its Donegal North-East candidate for the Dáil, he moved into a new constituency office, which was officially opened by Fine Gael party leader Enda Kenny on 6 October 2006.

2005

In July 2005, McHugh married Olwyn Enright, who served as a Fine Gael TD for Laois–Offaly from 2002 to 2011. They have three children.

1999

Selected by Fine Gael to run for a Donegal County Council seat in the Milford local electoral area, McHugh was elected on 11 June 1999. In 2001, he introduced a motion to establish a youth council for the county, which led to the formation of the Donegal Youth Council, the first democratically elected youth forum in Ireland. He also worked closely with Young Fine Gael, helping to establish the first branch in the county in March 2004. While a member of the council, he was appointed chairman of the cross-border body ERNACT (European Region Network for the Application of Communications Technology), where he made the provision of broadband in border areas a priority.

1971

Joe McHugh (born 16 July 1971) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Minister for Education and Skills since October 2018. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal constituency since 2016, and previously from 2007 to 2016 for the Donegal North-East constituency. He previously served as Government Chief Whip and Minister of State for Gaeilge, Gaeltacht and the Islands from 2017 to 2018, Minister of State for the Diaspora and Overseas Development from 2016 to 2017 and Minister of State for Gaeltacht Affairs and Natural Resources from 2014 to 2016. He was a Senator for the Administrative Panel from 2002 and 2007.

Born in Carrigart, County Donegal, in 1971. McHugh was educated at Umlagh National School and the Loreto Convent, Milford. He attended the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where he received an honours degree in economics and sociology, and a higher diploma in education. A keen sportsman, McHugh has been a member of the Carrigart Boxing Club, has played soccer in the Donegal League with Cranford F.C. and Bonagee United F.C., and has also been a Gaelic footballer. McHugh taught geography and mathematics at the Loreto Convent Secondary School, Letterkenny from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 1996, he taught A-level economics in Dubai, during which time he helped establish the first GAA club in the United Arab Emirates. In 1996, he returned to Ireland and became a youth worker in the Ballyboe area of Letterkenny.