Culture That Made Me: Minister for Culture Patrick O'Donovan picks his touchstones
Patrick O'Donovan, Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, was born in Newcastle West.
Patrick O’Donovan is the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport. Born in 1977, he grew up in Newcastle West, Co Limerick. He studied chemistry at University College Cork and later obtained a graduate diploma in education from Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. After teaching for a while as a primary school teacher, he was elected as a Fine Gael candidate to Dáil Éireann in 2011. He was appointed Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science last year and to his current ministerial post in January.
