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Profile: Lucinda Creighton

Her uncommon trait of straight talking may have cost the junior minister in terms of money, but it has done no harm whatsoever to her political career

The Sunday Times Published: 18 November 2012

A few days after Lucinda Creighton was appointed junior minister for European affairs, a job that came with a €130,000 annual salary, she took a seat on the government front bench beside Alan Shatter, the justice minister. Shatter leant over and asked his Fine Gael colleague if she realised how lucky she was. He’d been in politics for 25 years before getting into cabinet; Creighton had landed her first portfolio after less than four.

Her rise up the political ranks has indeed been brisk. She was elected to Dublin city council at the age of 24, called to the bar at 25, and elected TD for Dublin South East at 27 — the youngest serving member of the Oireachtas at the time, and therefore nicknamed Baby of the Dail. Nor has she succeeded by playing the cute political game of staying quiet and out of trouble. Instead the Mayo-born TD prides

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