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Tue 03 Mar 2010Cullen steps down as TD and Minister due to health problems

MARTIN CULLEN, the Minister for Arts Sports and Tourism, has announced he will retire from public life later this month because of chronic back pain.

Mr Cullen, a TD for Waterford announced yesterday evening he would resign as both a Minister and as a TD.