Fianna Fáil pushing to keep 'good news' sports ministry role

Jack Chambers, it is understood, was not happy with the decision to move him from the Department of Sport to the Department of Transport. Picture: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

Fianna Fáil TDs are pushing for the party to keep the sports junior ministry this week as the Government ranks are filled out.

All junior ministers will be appointed after Wednesday's Cabinet meeting, with the three super-junior ministers — who sit at Cabinet — already having been reappointed in yesterday's announcement.