Fianna Fáil to keep sport brief with shake-up expected within Fine Gael ranks

Fine Gael TDs Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Neale Richmond, and Brendan Griffin are the names 'in the mix' for promotion

It is expected that Jennifer Carroll MacNeill will be promoted to junior Minister for European affairs in place of Fianna Fáil’s Thomas Byrne who is expected to get the sport portfolio. Picture: Paddy Cummins

Fianna Fáil is likely to keep the sport portfolio in the reshuffle of junior ministerial jobs, with a shake-up expected within Fine Gael ranks.

Senior sources have also suggested that the current sport brief could be split up and could see the Department of the Gaeltacht getting its own junior minister.