Mackin quits top FF post for Harvard as Dukes gets PR job

FIANNA Fáil general secretary Martin Mackin is quitting his job to take up a study fellowship at Harvard University in the USA.

Also moving on to pastures new is former Fine Gael TD Alan Dukes who is to take up a post with public relations firm Wilson Hartnell.

The former FG leader who lost his Kildare South seat in the last election has quit active politics and has also recently taken a part-time job as director of the think-tank, the Institute of European Affairs.