M%C3%A1ire Geoghegan Quinn

Mire GeogheganQuinn is a former Irish politician. She served as European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science from 2010 to 2014. She previously served as a Fianna Fil Teachta Dla for the Galway West constituency from 1975 to 1997. She served in a number of ministries in Ireland in the early 1980s and early 1990s.

Mire Geoghegan was born in Carna, County Galway in September 1950. She was educated at Coliste Muire, Tourmakeady, in County Mayo and at Carysfort College in Blackrock from where she qualified as a teacher. She is married to John Quinn, with whom she has two children.

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