Tributes to Donal Creed, former minister of state who came up with idea of National Lottery
Mr Creed, who passed away on Thursday, aged 93, was a long-time Fine Gael TD for the Cork Mid and then Cork North West constituencies and held a number of junior ministerial briefs in the early 1980s.
Macroom-born, he held a number of roles including minister of state in the Department of Health in the latter half of 1981, junior minister in the Department of the Environment in 1982, and minister of state in the Department of Education from 1982 to 1986.
