Mr Andrews's Appointees

Niall Holohan has been promoted from first secretary to counsellor in the Asia section of the political division of the Department…

Niall Holohan has been promoted from first secretary to counsellor in the Asia section of the political division of the Department. He returned to Dublin last year after four years on the Irish mission to the United Nations in New York. He was charge d'affaires in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war and went to Baghdad after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

A spokesman for the Tanaiste said last night that she did not ask for him to be promoted but Mr Andrews would have known how highly she thought of him.

Conor O'Riordan has been promoted from the Minister's private secretary to Consul-General in Cardiff. He returned to the development co-operation section last summer after serving as Consul-General, at first secretary level, in Boston.

Mr O'Riordan also served as private secretary to Mr Andrews as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the 1992-1994 coalition.

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Referring to him as "a terribly efficient private secretary who served his country very well in Boston", Mr Andrews presented his new job as "a deserved reward for his work on behalf of this country."

Mr Brian Nason was promoted to Chief of Protocol, assistant secretary rank, within the past fortnight. He had been a senior counsellor in many posts.

He returned to Dublin from Paris last summer to head the information technology section in the Department. Before that, he had served as Consul-General in San Francisco and in the Maryfield Secretariat in Belfast.