Ireland Names New Ambassador to U.S.
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DUBLIN, Ireland — Dermot Gallagher, 46, is replacing Padraic MacKernan as Irish ambassador to the United States, the government announced Saturday.
Gallagher, assistant secretary in the Anglo-Irish division of the Department of Foreign Affairs since 1987, has served at the Irish Consulate in San Francisco and as ambassador to Nigeria.
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